Fwd: Re: [pA'ncarAtra - An Overview - Part 7.]
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• December 14, 2000
Dear Devotees: I meant to post the attached in the list, but it went only to SrI Hari the first time I sent it out. I am now submitting it for the general readership. -dAsan kRshNamAcAryan --- Narasimhan Krishnamachariwrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:04:24 -0800 (PST) > From: Narasimhan Krishnamachari > Subject: Re: [pA'ncarAtra - An Overview - Part 7.] > To: "M.S.HARI Madabhushi Sarangarajan Hari" > > SrI Hari: > > Thanks for your comments, which I have included in another posting. > I > took the liberty to share your comments on the write-up in the list, > since I thought it will benefit the readership. > > Of and on, I had given the background of why I am submitting these > write-ups on SrI pA'ncarAtra, but your note gives me another > opportunity to clarify the background. So, instead of responding to > you in private mail, I am taking the liberty to give the reasons and > backgrond for the write-ups in the list, so that I have had another > chance to clarify the background to the rest of the members. > > I belong to the SrImad ANDavan ASramam. I have the personal > blessings > of tirukkuDanthai SrI KaNNan svAmigaL, to which I attribute anything > I > am able to do by way of kaimkaryam. I also have the personal > blessings > of SrI agnihotram rAmAnuja tAtAchAriar, who I know is a controversial > figure in the SrI vaishNava circles. The current write-ups are not > part of what I learned from kAalakshepam, but more to fill a need > that > I had: I had a lack of understanding of the two SrIvaishNava > Agama-s, > and so I took a modest step at reviewing a lot of existing literature > and posted my summary for those who might benefit from it. A lot of > it > comes from the book by SrI rAmachandra Rao of Kalpataru Research > Academy. So my write-up is not original work in any sense, nor is it > a > reflection of any specific school or AcArya. I consider this a > "review" article, using the scentific parlance to which I am somewhat > exposed. This does not represent any one school of thought, but is a > collection of different views expressed by different people. At some > stage earlier, I had shared with the list members the references from > which I am drawing the information. I had also invited additional > comments and remarks from the readership, because this was the spirit > with which I started posting the item, namely, that others will share > their knowledge as I post these, and I will benefit from this > feedback. > > I sincerely appreciate the feedback you provided through the personal > mail, and I look forward to guidance and advice from others as well. > I > also look forward to your detailed write-up on the pA'ncarAtra Agama, > and if possible, on the vaikhAnasa Agama as well. > > -dAsan kRshNamAcAryan > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@eGroups.com Search archives at http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/index.html#SEARCH
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