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                Sri Sri Sri Tridandi Chinnajeeyar Swamiji, period of social, there is no equality. So, he
             Honorable Defense minister Sri Rajanath             just propagated for equality.

             Singhji, Great spiritual leader Sri Sri
                                                                    Everybody not only should be equal before
             Ravishankarji, other guests on the dias, I feel     God, there should be no untouchability. When

             blessed and honored to be amongst you on            everybody is equal, where is the question of
             this occasion of Sri Ramanuja Sahasrabdi untouchability? This has been propagated by
             Samaroh. And devotees a-ll across the world         Ramanujaji, and ultimately during the freedom

             are waiting for the opportunity to participate      fight, when the entire nation was fighting
                                                                 against the Britishers to free India, at that time
             in the auspicious festival.
                                                                 Gandhiji also had his campaign against

                                                                 untouchability, which was said 1000 years
                The Divya Saketam is the magnificent spiri-
                                                                 back by Ramanujacharya.
             tual complex and the gigantic statue of
             Ramanuja has been a dream project of Sri
                                                                    In those days there was no equality
             Sri Sri Tridandi Chinna jeeyar Swamij since a       between men and women, and there was a
             long time and ultimately this became to a           time the women were not even able to read,
             reality, largely because of his determination,      they have absolutely no right to education,
             conviction, efforts and commitment.
                                                                 they are not able to read sashtra, not to speak
                                                                 of sashtra and not to hear sashtra, that was
                I am really proud and honoured to be in
             this occasion and I am nothing but to say I         a time, and that time Ramanujaji said this is
                                                                 unjust and this cannot be done. He had the
             would only say, what are the messages of
             Ramanujacharya to the entire world?                 courage, conviction, commitment that this is
                                                                 bad, and this must go, and that is 1000 years       uÛÑ
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                - Entire world is equality before the God,       back, which we are not able to think up  now.       ì
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             no discrimination among every section of the           And, so far the question of equality is          <ä
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             society, everybody is equal. And in the pe-
                                                                 concern, for equality everyone has equal be-        i
             riod of religion there is no equality, in the                                                           e÷]Ã
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