Mr. Jayamohan,
Hello. I saw your Guru Purnima greetings. There is nothing wrong with you following the Advaita sect, which prioritizes the Vedas. What is the need for this in Tamil Nadu, which mostly follows the Agama sect Saivasiddhanta tradition? Please explain why it is necessary for Hindus from Tamil Nadu to worship Vyasa, given that he isn’t part of the Tamil tradition.
Should other groups abandon their traditions and bow down to the fierce dominance that the Vedanta Smartham exerts over the entire Hindu tradition? What does the Tamil community need this for, besides reinforcing Hindutva’s monocultural dominance?
In many Shiva temples that follow Agama traditions, the Smarthas are wrongly appointing and recognizing Nayanmars, including Sekkizhar, as Vedantists like Adi Shankara, which goes against the Agama rules.
Isn’t it a call to the Hindu tradition to present many Vedic cultural elements that are not part of the Tamil tradition in a negative way? What other implications does this have besides the cultural distortion caused by Hindutva politics?
With love,
Ira. Muruganandam.
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Dear Muruganandam,
If you were truly interested in philosophy and spirituality and had the desire to understand, I would have answered this in excellent detail with a historical picture. What is in this letter is simple political prejudice and its resulting preconception. I have no desire to discuss it. The question you have asked should not be addressed in this tone and from this angle.
Hindutva gangs, on the one hand, are making Hinduism a cheap political policy. The reason why I am so strongly opposed to it is the idea that by creating political prejudices like this, on the other hand, the entire spirituality will be distorted into a political conflict. That is what happens.
I believe I can gather a small circle of people interested in philosophy, nurturing it like a seed for the future. Therefore, I consider that neither Hindus nor anti-Hindus are before me.
Jeyamohan
