comments on Varadhan's Article

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• March 21, 1997


N.Satyan writes

The above and other comments to unite all Srivaishnavites is
interesting and shows the bias one develops about social groups.
To some extent these pertain to the Iyengars. If we lived in 
our homes in India, we would have continued to live with them,
and if we liberalize our views, the democracy and the DMK might
have influenced us. Abroad, we have come to see a variety of
life in practice. One may try to expand one's association with
a broader group. But why should one reastrict suc things to
SV's alone?
I have some clippings from Ft. St. George Gazette, discussing 
the Vadagali and Thengalai disagreements that brought them to the
British courts in 1740 from Parthasarthy temple in Triplicane. The
case went to the Privy council in the first half of this century.
The problem was one of economics rather than religious smpradayam.
One would loose control of the administering of the temple. All
these lost their meaning when the DMK governmemnt took over temple
administration. 
What we have been brought up in and gotten used to control our
thoughts far more than what is right. Of course, what is right
depends on  time, palce and the ersons involved.
Krishna Praba