Re:no need to degrade saivaites to extol the virtues

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SrI:

SrImatE rAmAnujAya nama:

SrI lakshmI narasimha parabrahmaNE nama:

 

SrImAn rAmachandran ji,

 

We as SrI vaishNavAs believe that jIva is eternally

subservient to brAhmaN, and eternally different from

SrImAn nArAyaNa, the parabrahmaN. There are other

schools that believe that only ignorance(avidya or

mAya) prevents one from knowing oneself to be God.

Those schools are very staunchly propogating this

mAyavAda, which calls our teachings as avidya. But we

do not go into the middle of their lectures and say,

they are not secularists, for every one has their

right to propogate their philosophy. In India, there

are somany fraud bAbas who teach somuch of nonsense to

mislead common men. We do not disrupt even their

lectures. But we SrI vaishNavAs, who strictly follow

vEda(upanishads), vEdAnta sUtrAs, and bhagavad geeta

(prasthAna trayee) are being asked to not propogate

our sidhAnta. Who is intolerant here? you or us? who

is non-secular here? you or us?

 

You accused our scholar by saying that there are other

things he can teach to propogate vaishNavism. So you

decide even what we should as vaishNavism. what a

great freedom of religion(secularism) you are

advocating?

 

you also said> In todays context Vaishnavism will

score an empahatic victory only when more and more

persons are attracted towards it from other sects for

which Divyadesam can do a great service.

 

First of all, please let me tell you, we are not

businessmen who buy devotees by telling what they may

like to hear( we can only teach what our AchAryas

teach us). Donations from the people to renovate divya

dEsams is accepted only to save those people, not God.

Our(your and mine also) perumAL says in bhagavad

geeta, phalam patram pushpam tOyam .... He is

satisfied even with a fruit or leave or flower or even

water. He accepts our kainkaryams only to bless us

with the bhAgyam of serving Him, not to increase His

luxuries for He is already the Lord of SrI dEvi(sarva

sampada). If we also teach non-vedic knowledge to get

more and more devotees and to flood with money, then

who will save them from ignorance? if we do not teach

them that SrI hari is the Lord of every one, then are

we not filling them with ignorance?

 

If you have objections based on scriptures, please

place infront of our scholars, they can answer them

without any big effort. But if you object vaishNava

sidhAnta to promote the philosophies of ignorance,

then we are forced pay a deaf ear.

 

THERE IS NO ONE EQUAL OR SUPERIOR TO SRI HARI.

 

dAsOham,

SrIperumbUdUru vEnkaTa vinOd.

 

 

Message: 2

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:41:54 +0530

RAMACHANDRAN <pram

Re: Re:no need to degrade saivaites to extol

the virtues

vaishnavism

 

Dear Shri Vinodji,

At the outset the meaning of secularism is a simple

fact that it

denotes freedom of a person to follow a religion of

his choice and secularism

never states that a particular religions virtues can

be highlighted by

denigrating other sect so on and so forth.

 

To propagate and bring about the virtues of

Vasihnavism or for that

matter any sect of religion there are several examples

and statements

which will go very well with followers of GOD.

 

After all vaishnavism and saivism are two parts of our

great HINDU

religion.

 

In todays context Vaishnavism will score an empahatic

victory only when

more and more persons are attracted towards it from

other sects for

which Divyadesam can do a great service.

 

Om namo narayana

 

Ramachandran.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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