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sridharranganatha • January 28, 2003 


Dear Bhagavatas,
AdiEN is writing this mail in total ignorance.  So please forgive me 
if our siddantham is wrongly presented.  
According to my limited understanding of our siddantham, one of the 
basic tenets is that "If we take out all our jIva's(Souls)out of the 
bodies including those with animal bodies, and line them up to each 
other, they all are Identical, atomic and indistinguishable.  We will 
not be able to differentiate one from the other. Since the soul in 
the women's body, man's body, animal's body or the sudra's body are 
all the same then in my humble opinion saying Sudra's don't have a 
right to do sandhyavandhanam or women chanting Vedas violates our 
siddantham. The ONLY question should be " Do we(you) accept Sriman 
nArAyana as Sarvam"  If the answer is "yes", then that soul should be 
able sing praises of Perumal in the way best suits It. When we say 
shudra, Brahman, women, man, donkey, monkey we are mistaking the 
Notself(Body)to be Self(Soul). Isn't it the same mistake that Sri 
Shankara made? Didn't he look at chandala's body and ask it to be 
moved? The BEAUTY of our siddantham is that we are Egalitarian in a 
sense. We don't discriminate on anything(expect accepting the Tatva 
that Sriman nArAyana is supreme lord). AdiEn thinks "SriVaishnavism 
trumps brahminism", unlike the Advatins who give prominence to 
Brahmanism in their mutts even though they preach 'Aham Brahmasmi'. 
We look at individuals as souls so castes, sexes, etc. are 
irrelevant. We would not have had the bhagyam of knowing the 
unadulterated Bhakti of Thiruppan Azhlwar or Sri Andal, if we were to 
discriminate on Caste or Sex. To AdiEn, AmalanAdippiran and 
Thiruppavai is what makes Divya prabhandam what it is! Divyam. 
AdiEn again apologizes to all the bhagavatas if any mistakes have 
been committed in representing our siddantham.  Please feel free to 
correct AdiEn.
dasan
sridhar ranganatha




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