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Dear Swamin Sri Vaishnavas are commonly honoured with prefix" Ubhaya Vedanthis"_ which, among other things , represent Vedas and Divya prapandhas.In other words, they are vidwans of both Vedas and Divya prapandhas, though they have not learnt all Vedas/their Veda as per their sakha( yajus sakha etc) and all 4000 Divya prapandhams 2.Ubhaya Vedanthis are small in number now-a-days.The irony is that Vaishnavaites, after their retirement from their profession, used to learn prapandhams, having books with them, as most of these people do not know sanskrit. Being the mother-tongue, they are fond of learning tamil prapandhams and do not try to learn atleast pancha sookthas. This is the weakness in Vaishnavas, whereas, advaitees give

importance to vedic learning and Veda parayanam.Srikainkarya leaves to Elites further thinkings on the above conjecture, logic etc and to come to a decision on the necessity to revive the learnings of Vedas atleast by next generation ( younger) as done by Advaitees 3. This is the proper time to encourage adyayanam of atleast panchasookthams by vaishnavas, though they do not know a, b , c , d , about sanskrit and they do not know akshara sudhdha in pronounciation . Once they impart in this line they will have enthusiasum and do parayanam perfectly. This is one part 4. Another thing is Vedaparayana vidwans. In Tamilnadu,staunch vedaparayana vidwans are nurtured here and there giving honororium etc to them from the funds created

for this purpose, as in Kanchipuram. 5. Srikainkarya has undertaken this in a small way (within it's limit) in giving sambhavana to Vedic pundits who perform vedaparayanam during pavithrothsavam at Thiruvaheendrapuram. There may be philonthrophists giving sambhavana like this in kshetras. But , most of staunch veda parayakars are living below the povert line , unable to meet both ends. That is why they are reluctant to send their wards to Veda patasalas, though Sri Ahobila Mutt, Srimath Andavan Asramam are encouraging the learnings of vedas by young people in all ways, extending all facilities/benefits 6. The need of the hour is to protect aged staunch vedaparayana swamis living in villagesdoing vedaparayana kainkaryam to Bhagvan in temples , without

migrating to other professions / or to other towns/urban areas for livelyhood. The need of the hour is to provide them with basic amenities ( food,clothing. shelter, minimum funds /money to gain purchasing power every month, if not radio/television/phone. fan etc) 7. The second part is prapandha Adhikaris. No doubt, most of these vaishnavaits are having some sort of comfortable back-ground of earning or receiving pension or some amount by way of interest etc. The irony is that they entered this prabhandha ghoshti after spending their better part of their lives in earnings/ after completing family commitments of education, employment marriage of their wards. We can see that most of them are having books in their hands while rendering Divyaprabhandhas along with professionals in temples( urban area). If not , there will be scarcity , even for rendering Divya prabhandhas, while there is no rendering of Vedas

during Nithyanusanthanam(morning & evening) and Saththumurai in most of the temples 8. As vaishnavas, it is our bounden duty to see that Vedaparayanam is done in all the temples. As vaishnavas, it is our utmost responsibility to protect staunch vedaparayakaras who are still lingering in the village temples, attending to veda parayanams. 9. It is also our duty to encourage and help staunch Adyabhagas doing Divyaprabandha sevai in villages/urban/other temples 10. Ofcourse, there are archakas also in these temples sailing in the same boat Smrithi says Yasya vedhachcha vedheesa vichchith yethey thripoorusham savai durbrahmanegeya: saruakarma bhahis krutham If

we, as vaishnavaits are unable to do kainkaryam /service to veda vidwans/ Divyaprabhandha adhikaris for their well-being , we cannot say ourselves as vaishnavaites 11. Those, who do not have adyayanam(learning and reciting vedas) and relationship with vedic pundits for three generations , are bad brahmins (durbrahmins). In other words, those who do not know their veda sakhas or atleast panchasookthas, they will not be treated as brahmins (leave alone vaishnavas) but bad brahmins and their anushtanams will not give any benefit to them 12.Srikainkarya is thinking on the above lines for the past so many days. At this juncture, one young Srivaishnavaite from U.S. thinking on the same lines has sent an e-mail like this to Srikainkarya Kindly let me know how we can do some more to make a

difference to staunch srivaishnavas in their pursuit of vedas/prabhandhams or in any of their needs 13. Srikainkarya is of opinion that there are most elite vaishnavas spread over all along the world and that they can be approached for this purpose 14. Srikainkarya requests you to suggest/ discuss/putforth your valued, well thought out ideas/opinions etc in a nutshell as early as possible sothat they can be further discussed (with pros & cons) and arrived at a conclusion by way of a scheme Dasan Srikainkarya Thiruvaheendrapuram Uruppattur Chakravarthi Soundararajan

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