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Re: outburst of a angry vaishnavite

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Mani Varadarajan • February 14, 2003 


> In a recent
> function attended by my appa of a member of he said he
> was shocked to see the parents of the bidegroom eating
> food in both the hands and ever thing against the so
> called anushtanams which the group was started the
> spread

Others have said it well but I am reminded of
the Biblical statement "Judge not, lest ye be
judged." Who among us has not lapsed in our
ritual purity in some way or another? I shudder
to think of the consequences if I were judged
merely on external appearances. Though none of
us can be compared in any measure, the story of
Jada Bharata also comes to mind as good food
for thought.

But yet I am not surprised at the shock of you
and your father. This is the sad state of our
community when orthodoxy is judged principally
on the basis of ritual cleanliness and not on
internal qualities and formal anusthanam of some
form or another is the primary measure of one's
Vaishnavatva.

Mani
 [writing as a participant and not as moderator]


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