Incident at Kanchi

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Makes you wonder, how can these sort of things happen in one of our three most

important Divya Desams. A real sad incident, the person being chopped to pieces.

And even worse, the temple priests are also suspected to be involved.

 

It really affects one's psyche if he/she thinks that this gruesome incident

happened at the temple of the same deity that spoke to Thiru Kacchi NambikaL and

gave the Aru vArthai to our EmperunanAr.

 

There needs to be a massive over-haul of the Sri VaishnavAs. Priestly duties

shouldn't be just a mere 8-5 job. Talking nonsense and uttering gibberish in

front of the deity is an everyday thing at most of the temples (unfortunately,

one can observe such behavior even here in the US, anyway I don't want to open

the pandora's box), not to forget all the stories of the priests swindling money

and jewels.

 

What happened?? Priests are supposed to be the best friends of the Lord (simple

logic: you become totally acquainted with the person whom you see the most, you

become best friends with him naturally), and how can they even think of cheating

the lord and the scores of devotees worshipping him?? Do they even think for one

second, what these deities meant to Swami EmperumAnAr and the following

AchAryAs?

 

Soo many questions and "if only.....'s" in my mind.

 

AzhwAr emperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE Saranam.

 

Dasan,

Kidambi Soundararajan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ranganathan swami,

 

Yes, I can narrate a personal incident to you.

 

The Bhattar at the Ulagalanda perumal koil, told us

he cannot perform the Aarti unless we gave him money!!

 

Then I thought it was a small incident. But after

seeing much horror scenes in all the temples, we a

group have decided to follow the principles and start

educating the youth of these evils in our society.

 

I personally feel that the best way for this would be

to take all the shrines under our Matams and then make

the priests only employees for a salary. We can even

have shifts so that temple is open all the day round.

 

Parting, do you know most of the temple lands in the

divyashetrams, were in the brahminical custody and we

guys made monetary benifit of it by sale, depriving

both us and the emperuman of it.

 

The solution lies in uniting all of us under one roof.

No thengalai, no vadagalai, accept the state of the

temples as today, no matam no ashramam no difference

at all between us.

 

Then all this is possible. Only Emperuman has to lead

us out of this mess webbed by our greed for money.

 

Dasan/raghavan

 

--- vimalkumar ranganathan <panardasan

wrote:

 

> Makes you wonder, how can these sort of things

> happen in one of our three most important Divya

> Desams. A real sad incident, the person being

> chopped to pieces. And even worse, the temple

> priests are also suspected to be involved.

>

> It really affects one's psyche if he/she thinks that

> this gruesome incident happened at the temple of the

> same deity that spoke to Thiru Kacchi NambikaL and

> gave the Aru vArthai to our EmperunanAr.

>

> There needs to be a massive over-haul of the Sri

> VaishnavAs. Priestly duties shouldn't be just a mere

> 8-5 job. Talking nonsense and uttering gibberish in

> front of the deity is an everyday thing at most of

> the temples (unfortunately, one can observe such

> behavior even here in the US, anyway I don't want to

> open the pandora's box), not to forget all the

> stories of the priests swindling money and jewels.

>

> What happened?? Priests are supposed to be the best

> friends of the Lord (simple logic: you become

> totally acquainted with the person whom you see the

> most, you become best friends with him naturally),

> and how can they even think of cheating the lord and

> the scores of devotees worshipping him?? Do they

> even think for one second, what these deities meant

> to Swami EmperumAnAr and the following AchAryAs?

>

> Soo many questions and "if only.....'s" in my mind.

>

> AzhwAr emperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE Saranam.

>

> Dasan,

> Kidambi Soundararajan.

>

>

>

>

>

>

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> now.

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Sri:

Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Dear Sriman Raghavan,

Humble praNAms to you. I'm just sharing my views. Well,

all my views are someone else's. In principle, nothing is original!

 

> The solution lies in uniting all of us under one roof.

> No thengalai, no vadagalai, accept the state of the

> temples as today, no matam no ashramam no difference

> at all between us.

 

How do we plan to incorporate/implement this "no difference"

business? Before making any global changes we have to take care of

the local changes for example at home. Is this non-difference(or no

difference as you put it)at physical/AtmA level or sampradAyic level

(some of the customs that are existing today)?

 

Let us forget about the AtmA level for the time being. Let us

consider some of the practices(sampradAyam) within SriRamanuja

sampradAyam. On the assumption that there is no difference, if a

kid,sees two persons, following two different traditions(sect),

prostrating before the Lord differently and asks the question, then

would we answer that kid one equals two/four? Or we may dodge the

question or give some vague answer to the kid. We will only create

more confusion in the mind of the kid. But, by psychoanalysis, this

will have a catastrophic effect on the kid in the log run. How do we

plan to handle the "already" existing differences? Certain things

are easier said than done. In every field there are experts. The

best is to follow an expert in the respective fields.

 

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam

dAsAnu dAsI

NC Nappinnai