My concluding comments. Was Private or public?

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|| srImate vedAnta rAmAnuja mahA deshikAya namah ||

 

Dear bhAgawatAs,

 

Sorry for being the one to cause a turbulence. Since

I have said everything I have to say on the topic, I

wish to conclude this topic with this e-mail. If

people do send me e-mail either privately or in

public, I will try to reply to them privately, and

that too only if I can add value to the discussion.

 

SrImAn Dileepan said:

 

> Personally, highly esoteric technical questions

> such as perumal's swaroopam and perumal's roopam

> go way above my head. Hopefully adiyEn will be

> excused for the lack of mental faculties to

> understand these concepts. However, adiyEn

> will not object to these questions that only a

> few are learned enough to raise and fewer still

> are smart enough to understand the answer.

 

The point is *not* of how intelligent, how esoteric,

or how dumb the questions are. I think people are

reading too much into my e-mail. The example of

perumAL's swaroopam and roopam was just taken to make

a point. There have been a variety of very

thought-provoking questions raised by several of the

participants including thyself. I have to sincerely

accept that aDiyen has learnt a lot from those

questions.

 

> adiyEn would like to leave everyone with a

> question of my own, in public :-). Would a

> participant of a private conference on health

> matters object to raising questions about food

> choices, on the basis that some of the answers

> may require him/her to give up certain foods

> that he/she has loved all his/her life?

 

Good analogy but let me please elaborate. A private

conference is not the same as AcArya kAlakshepam or

upanyAsam. We might consider a person delivering the

speech in a private conference a peer. At best we

might elevate him to the status of an expert. AcArya

is a whole different person. He is sAkShAt nArAyaNa.

So, while we may or may not take the food expert

seriously, our conscientious mind will not allow us to

take the AcArya anything but seriously. This is where

the conflict arises between current life-styles,

between the interpretations and relaxations of conduct

advocated by various AcAryas.

 

> However, if there are many who are upset with

> having to hear answers that are not to their

> liking, then, adiyEn as the organizer will

> reluctantly ask the participants not to raise

> such questions during upanyasams. Please let

> me know by e-mail.

 

Considering that the audience at large (at least those

that responded in public) had a fairly unanimous

opinion on the issues I have raised, I have absolutely

nothing to propose or dispose. So, please continue

with the current format. To those I might have

offended, I sincerely request their kind forgiveness.

 

| na dharma niShTho'smi na ca Atma-vEdi |

|| na bhaktimAn tvatcharaNAravindE ||

| akincanO ananyagatih sharaNya |

|| tvat pAda moolam saraNam prapadye ||

 

AcAryan thiruvaDigaLe sharaNam

-aDiyEn dAsan, muraLi kaDAmbi

 

 

 

 

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