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Re: outburst of a angry vaishnavite

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geelakshman • February 17, 2003 


SrI:
SrImate Gopala desika mahadesikaya nama:

The adjective "angry" is inappropriate for a true
Vaishnavite. 

Sri Balaji is quite justified in getting shocked to 
observe some person whom he "thought" was a true
Vaishnavite.

adiyen got angry at one of the functions organised
by a particular group. (I will leave out the reason 
for getting angry). I was feeling sorry to have shown
this "bhavam" since I feel except Bhakti no other
emotion should be shown in Perumal Sannidhi. I mentioned
this to one of my spritual friends. He said that 'to get
angry' is all right when 'adharma' is done. He pacified me
saying that 'I got angry' against 'adharma' and that was
OK. 

So Sri Balaji, I think it is OK to get angry in this instance.
We have to 'grow up' and face the reality in the world - it 
is filled people of all sorts including those who preach one 
thing and practice another.

Lakshmana dasan

--- In bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com, "Mani Varadarajan " 
 wrote:
> > 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

> 
> 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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