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From: Kannan Sreenivasachar (ksreeniv_at_coulomb.uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Tue Nov 07 1995 - 15:21:32 PST
Hello Dear Bhaktas, Greetings to you all. My name is Kannan Sreenivasachar and am presently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. I was born in Mysore and grew up in Bombay. I completed my B.E. from Mysore and M. Tech from IIT Kharagpur. I was at IISc for one year enrolled in Ph.D. and moved to Waterloo beginning of this year. I come from a Vadagalai Iyengar family and am associated with the PeriAndavan Ashramam in Srirangam. Growing up in Bombay, I never got a chance to delve into the study of Sri Vaishanavism. It was only when I was in Mysore with my grandparents did I get to learn some Desikar's stotram, Vishnu Sahasranaamam and Venakteshwara Suprabhatam. My knowledge of Vishishtadvaitic Philosophy is at the beginner's level and I feel fortunate to be a part of the Sri Vaishanava group founded by Mani that is involved in topics on bhakti and prapatti. I am indeed suprised by the discussions going on this group and am confident of edifying myself by reading the scholarly articles contributed by some of the members of the group. I have enjoyed reading the Sudarshanaashtakam translation by Sri. Sadagopan and more recently the Garuda dandakam and Hayagreeva stotram. I have also browsed through the homepage that Mani maintains and I must commend him for all his efforts. Thank you for your patience and my greetings again to all of you. Kannan