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i would like to know which is the primary-origin-matha of all the

mathas & y is there a conflict of 'nomuro-uno'?does'nt it deter the

desire of sri acharya madhva itself,for he said,the primary duty of

all mathadipathi is to spread tatva..??when they fight what tatva are

they preaching to comman man like me?

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hi pradeep,

 

The primary meaning of a matha (mata) is to spread the tatva to the disciples.Sri Madwa acharya thought that each part of India should know the actual

meaning of Vedas and Bhashyas.So he sent his desciples to different places by giving a name to that group callled as matha.Here there is no question of

fight. If they fight , they are not matured.And Infact Sankara Bhashya is totally opposed by Sri Madhwa Acharya by showing the mistakes and misUnderstood of

vedas and bhashyas.Even the most famous pandit of sankara Bhashya called trivikrama Panditha Acharya (famous pandit at that period) has agreed the mistakes of sanaka.

 

I hope you understand the origin.

 

Bheemasena Rao.

i would like to know which is the primary-origin-matha of all the mathas & y is there a conflict of 'nomuro-uno'?does'nt it deter the desire of sri acharya madhva itself,for he said,the primary duty of all mathadipathi is to spread tatva..??when they fight what tatva are they preaching to comman man like me?nAham kartA hariH kartA tatpUjA karmachaakhilam.h|taThaapi matkR^itaa pUja tatprasaadhEna naanyaThaa|tadbhakti tadphalam.h mahyam.h tatprasaadaat.h punaH punaH |karmanyaasO harAvevam.h vishNOsthR^iptikaraH sadhA ||"I am not the doer, shri Hari is the doer, all the actions that I do are His worship. Even then, the worship I do is through His grace and not otherwise. That devotion and the fruits of the actions that come to me are due to His recurring grace" If one always practices to do actions with a dedicated spirit to Hari, in this way, it pleases Vishnu. --- Quoted by Sri madhvAchArya in GitA tAtparya --To send an empty E-mail (without subject and body info.) to - --Visit VMS at http://www.madhva.orgView the latest events in the US by selecting the 'Events' link--

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Hi All,

 

, " diliprathnakar "

<diliprathnakar@i...> wrote:

> i have a genuine doubt about today's pontiffs of madhva mathas. all

> the swamijis converse with the women folk directly except uttaradi

> matha swamiji.

This used to be true with Rayara matha also.

 

> i personally feel that a pontiff has a duty to preach dharma to

> anyone who approaches him without differentiating between

> people. isn't the concept of samadrishti defied?

In the process of trying to etsblish 'equality' people often forget

that there's 'difference' in people, which sometimes require

different treatment. One is also expected to 'think' about these

issues. Like Lord says in Bhagavat Gita, 'indriya nigrahana is

difficult even for enlightened people'. IMHO, woman is one of the

great challangers of indriya nigrahana. Haven't we learnt that from

Puranas as well as from personal experience? Recently, have we not

seen such cases too? So inorder to avoid these challenges women are

kept at a distance. This by no means amounts to descrimination, if

fact this mainatins the sanctity of the monasitc order. I also fail

to understand how this amounts to 'denial' of dharmic knowledge to

women?

In ashta mathas(of Udupi) there's a tradition of giving diksha to

bala brahmacharis, isn't that questioned now? Have we not witnessed a

case where a pontiff has kind-of revolted for forcing him to sanyasa

at the age he didn't understand the consequence?

Why is it that in UttarAdi and Rayara mathas it's a practise that

sanyasa is given to those who've gone through married life experience?

Is it not because, since they've lived the marriage experience,

they've lost curiosity for it and that their vairagya will be more

fruitful? Sri Raghottamaru and Sri Satyatmaru are exceptions.

 

My request is to understand the difference between 'difference'

and 'descrimination', and not ro try and brand every difference as

descrimination.

 

Thank You,

 

Anand