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PRESIDENTS REMARKS.
The President in his remarks on Pandit Vedachalams speech went fully into the subject
of the Social aspects of Saiva-Siddhanta. He quoted a psalm from Appars Tevaram, and the
well-known Svetasvatara text cited by Nilakantha in his Bhashya on the Brahma-sutras, and
said that so far as principles were concerned, there was everything in Saivism to inculcate and
uphold the social equality of all men, but in practice it was not possible to abolish all castedistinctions at one stroke. But reform in the direction of equalization of castes was exceedingly
desirable and necessary, and as a first step it behooved on the Saivaites to elevate the depressed
OTHER ACTIVITIES.
The President then announced the invitation of H. H. the Raja of Ramnad to the SaivaSiddhanta Conference to come over to Madura and hold its next Session there during the
Christmas of December 1910. This was cheerfully and gratefully accepted by the Conference,
and a standing committee of fifteen members was at once formed to arrange therefore. The
President placed also before the Conference a letter received from the Private Secretary to H.
H. The Gaekwar of Baroda intimating the inability of His Highness to attend the Conference
from pressure of his duties and conveying his best wishes for the success of the Conference.
Commenting on that letter, the President eulogized the enthusiasm of H.H. the Gaekwar for
salutary social reforms, and the steadiness with which he had accomplished them in many
directions by brightening the lot of the depressed classes, education of women, amelioration of
caste distinctions etc., within the confines of his own state.