[sri ramanuja] What a Difference a Devotee Friend Makes in our Lives:

[Guest guest]

Dear Sriman Mukundan swami,

 

What you said is very much true. I have come into contact with many

fellow Srivaishnavas only thru the electronic groups right fom the

days of Bhakti list and the friendship with many has been long-

standing. Even with those I am not in touch, there is no enemity

which means only friendship! Also this friendship has grown into a

personal level particularly with Sriman TV Venkatesh swami and

Sriman MG Vasudevan swami, with whom I freely discsuss anything, not

just religion.

 

adiyen ramanuja dasan

Vishnu

 

ramanuja, "Pattangi" <pattangi wrote:

>

>

>

> What a Difference a Devotee Friend Makes in our Lives: Aug 2004

>

> I've been taking the same route to work for ten years years, since

I moved

> to Chicago. I usually ride the same bus in the morning at the same

stop. For

> at least the last few years, the same group of people board at the

same

> time, and we've become acquainted and talk with one another.

>

> One senior woman, who I see and greet every day, is much older

than I, and

> has always been very shy, and quiet. She is always the last one to

board

> and the last to leave it, always sits by herself, and seems

extremely

> withdrawn.

>

> About a month ago all of that changed. One morning she pushed

ahead to be

> the first one on the train, displaying a sense of urgency and

energy I'd

> never seen before. She hurried down the aisle and sat down beside

another

> woman and began an animated conversation with her.

>

> Every morning now that woman is the first one on the train and

seems alive

> and alert and completely changed from the person I'd observed for

the past

> years. She no longer sits alone; she no longer waits behind

everyone else to

> enter and exit; and she is no longer silent-she has found a

friend.

>

> I know that some devotees work and interact in relative isolation,

> responding to requests and demands of work or student life, but

with no one

> they can really count as a friend, a devotee friend.

>

> One of the wonderful things about our Vedics and Ramanuja groups

association

> is that it is more than a spiritual association; it is for many

people a

> place where they have made friends-lifelong friends-people with

whom they

> are at ease and who give them energy and vitality and who care

about them.

> Fostering friendships among devotees is a vital, if unstated,

benefit of

> Vedics Foundation.

>

> I cherish the write ups and associations from the Ramanuja list,

though I

> might not be very active in replying to the e-mails on this list.

I wanted

> to say thank you my devotee friends, for being in my life.

>

> Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Sir,

I agree with u. I feel each and every Bhagawats (member) in this group

are my friends.

I feel happy and proud to say Madhvakannan Swami is my well-wisher.

regards,

Vijayalakhmi S.

Namo Narayana,

,

(

.

 

Vishnu <vsmvishnu (AT) (DOT) co.in> wrote:

Dear Sriman Mukundan swami,

 

What you said is very much true. I have come into contact with many

fellow Srivaishnavas only thru the electronic groups right fom the

days of Bhakti list and the friendship with many has been long-

standing. Even with those I am not in touch, there is no enemity

which means only friendship! Also this friendship has grown into a

personal level particularly with Sriman TV Venkatesh swami and

Sriman MG Vasudevan swami, with whom I freely discsuss anything, not

just religion.

 

adiyen ramanuja dasan

Vishnu

 

ramanuja, "Pattangi" <pattangi wrote:

>

>

>

> What a Difference a Devotee Friend Makes in our Lives: Aug 2004

>

> I've been taking the same route to work for ten years years, since

I moved

> to Chicago. I usually ride the same bus in the morning at the same

stop. For

> at least the last few years, the same group of people board at the

same

> time, and we've become acquainted and talk with one another.

>

> One senior woman, who I see and greet every day, is much older

than I, and

> has always been very shy, and quiet. She is always the last one to

board

> and the last to leave it, always sits by herself, and seems

extremely

> withdrawn.

>

> About a month ago all of that changed. One morning she pushed

ahead to be

> the first one on the train, displaying a sense of urgency and

energy I'd

> never seen before. She hurried down the aisle and sat down beside

another

> woman and began an animated conversation with her.

>

> Every morning now that woman is the first one on the train and

seems alive

> and alert and completely changed from the person I'd observed for

the past

> years. She no longer sits alone; she no longer waits behind

everyone else to

> enter and exit; and she is no longer silent-she has found a

friend.

>

> I know that some devotees work and interact in relative isolation,

> responding to requests and demands of work or student life, but

with no one

> they can really count as a friend, a devotee friend.

>

> One of the wonderful things about our Vedics and Ramanuja groups

association

> is that it is more than a spiritual association; it is for many

people a

> place where they have made friends-lifelong friends-people with

whom they

> are at ease and who give them energy and vitality and who care

about them.

> Fostering friendships among devotees is a vital, if unstated,

benefit of

> Vedics Foundation.

>

> I cherish the write ups and associations from the Ramanuja list,

though I

> might not be very active in replying to the e-mails on this list.

I wanted

> to say thank you my devotee friends, for being in my life.

>

> Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

>

 

 

 

 

 

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