Social Services and Sri Vaishnavism: part II(Conclusion)
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Unknown Sender • Sun Jul 15 2001 - 20:00:44 PDT
Dear Sri. Sadagopan,
You have dealt with the issue of social service in a truthful (you do
not twist the Vedic paradigm to suit personal needs) and
comprehensive manner. I am grateful to you for highlighting the fact
that the notions of materialistic individualism and competition are
opposed to the Vedic paradigm. To expand a bit on this point, I
would like to add that spiritual pursuit and materialistic pursuit
are not complementary, as some would like us to believe. In fact the
two pursuits are opposed to each other; this is pointed out again and
again in our Acharya's works. Notwithstanding this, we try to
repeatedly argue that spiritual and materialistic pursuits are
complementary. We do this mainly to console ourselves; however, deep
down we know that we are lying to ourselves.
Why can't we admit the truth and recognize that we are on extremely
sub-optimal paths?
ramanuja dasan,
Venkat
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