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Re: Sri Vaisihnava Tradition

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Unknown Sender • Wed Oct 16 2002 - 20:34:03 PDT 


 Dear Bhagavathas,

Sriman Krishnan said: 
How does >>Sri Vaishnava tradition integrate into our lives in a modern 
setting and
context? Many Vaishnavas are settled abroad, far away from the divya
sthalams, and many more are settled in places that have no temple in the
immediate vicinity or even in neighboring areas?
These questions are broad in scope but I think answers to these questions
would be helpful especially for the youth who are part of this list<<<

We should do the best we can with what we have and wherever
we are. Understanding and following the Tattvam (TRUTH or MESSAGE), which we 
can do here quite well (thanks to many resources, more readily available than 
ever) is more important than our inability (because of desham and kAlam) to 
keep up with all the sampradAyams (TRADITION). Our religion is limitless, 
universal and boundless. Please let us not limit it in any way with any sort 
of agraharam (regional) mentality. For example, we witnessed DOLOTHSAVAM 
performed by Sriman Dileepan in Cincinnati last month. This was the best ever 
attended by me. The Navaneetha Krishnan idol was blessed an dsent to USA by 
Ahobila Swamy.
The whole kainkaryam went on superbly. In a way, it is easier to follow our 
tradition in countries like USA than in present  day India. Here we can pay 
more attention to underlying TRUTH than to the accompanying TRADITION.

dAsan

K. Sreekrishna Tatachar


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