[Advaita-l] Tantric Acts

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

Just to clarify, my post was in the context of the discussion between Shri
Kathirasan and Shri DVN Sarma.

On 14 January 2011 11:10, Ramesh Krishnamurthy <rkmurthy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a little amused by this discussion. All this has very little to do
> with anything being "granted" or "sanctioned" by tradition. Rather the point
> very simply is that the institution of marriage signifying a long-term and
> exclusive pair bond and the corresponding concept of family centred around
> the married couple is one of the most important innovations of a settled
> agrarian society.
>