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Re: Angry Vaishnavas

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tatachar • February 15, 2003 


Dear Balaji,

Please add this to the host of comments already been made  by other revered 
members of our group:

Your anger is understandable. You feel let down. We tend to be a bit more 
idealistic at younger ages. Gradually idealism gives way to reality. It is a 
part of growing up.

Having said that, I do realise that part of your anger is also due to what we 
all have been fed. We are reluctanct or unable to comprehend the relation 
between the TRUTH and the TRADITION. Thus, there hasn't been any serious 
house-cleaning to arrive at a pragmatic balance between truth and tradition. 
This everyone of us have to come to grips with in their own way (Like Marl 
Twain said: Get the facts and distort it as much as you need to!). 
Thus we have a system that tends to confine us to a life of guilt and 
limitaions. We should never forget that Truth is eternal, and tradition is 
temporal.  Truth should not be made to or interpreted to  limit or belittle 
us in any way or else it would amount to tail wagging the dog.   First be 
greatful to all our grand masters for saving the WHOLE for us. Free yourself 
from the limitations imposed by tradition and grow to fully rejoice the truth 
without guilt or blame.

Lord Krishna beautifully identifies this:

ta-ttva-vit  tu  ma-hA-bA-hO 
gu-Na-ka-rma-vi-bhA-ga-yOH |
gu-NA  gu-NaE-SHu va-rta-nta
i-ti  ma-tvA  na   sa-jja-taE ||28-3||

The knowers of the relation between attitudes and actions; and how they are 
impacted by the world we live in, are free (not bound).  

dAsan

K. Sreekrishna Tatachar


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