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WHAT IS THE QUALITY OF A SRI VAISHNAVAN?

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jasn sn • June 14, 2002 


SRIMATHE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA

Who is a Sri vaishnavan?
(Hope I am not inviting the wrath of the subscribers
of this list in asking this question.)
Is it by birth 
or by smearing of oorthwa pundram 
or by Samashrayan 
or by surrendering to the thiruvadi of a vaishnava
achryan
or by following the precepts of Sri Ramanuja
or by being a devotee of Sriman Narayana
or by anything else?
What makes one a true Srivaishnavan?
(I am reminded of the story written long ago by Cho
Ramaswamy of Thuglak, "Enge Brahmanan?' wherein he has
brought out the 'lakshana'of a true Brahnmin )

I am asking this question out of curiosity to know
where we, the women stand. What is that we, the women
must adorn to qualify ourselves as Srivaishanvites,
though by birth we come to belong to the Sri
vaishnavite familty.

Beg your pardon if I have hurt anyone's sentiments.

Kindly clarify.

Regards,
JAYASREE SARNATHAN

[ Please focus answers to this question on philosophical
  ideas taken from Vedanta, Divya Prabandham, Bhagavad
  Ramanuja's works, or philosophical tracts of later
  thinkers. Thanks -- Mani ]


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