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sapr,

you caught me with my pants down!!

i started this thread, more with a sense of momentary disgust, at some of the things that i have to put up with, in the name of tradition. the details do not matter eventually.

after i had posted, i realized, this reaction is more a sense of my impatience. i have even wondered if i should stray into the realm of intolerance, or being a common boor.

whatever it is, i find it very difficult, to compliance, in the name of tradition, when these acts go against one's common sense. sampradaayam, to me, has to be distilled carefully.

one step further.

you are aboslutely correct. nambikkai is faith. it is blind faith after all, because, we surrender ourselves to faith, consigning ourselves to that same faith, due to the mysteries that surround us, and for which we do not know the answer.

with each second, many of the mysteries are unravelled, but another million seem to crop up.

so, dear sapr, nambikkai has to be moodam. after all, was it not sekkizhar, who opined, 'pithaa piraisoodi...' .

then, i get crazy.. what is pitham.. something that is tamil, which i came to know only later in life. in talayalam, it has a different connotation.

so sir, at some point, when i think, i am smart, need to assert myself, somewhere, someone, gives me a hard knock. it is then, that i realize, that i indeed attend the best university aka 'the school of hard knocks'

hope i satisfied your curiosity.

thank you.