Discerning the commonalities in Tenkalai and Vadakalai narratives — and after understanding how they actually diminish, not enhance their stature as “ubaya vedaantins” in the eyes of Indian Civil Law and today’s modern society as well — it is important next to examine a few of the major dissonances between them. “Dissonance“, according to theContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part 10″
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The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 7
The Tenkalai narrative about how the Kanchipuram Sri Devarajaswamy Perumal temple in the 15th century came to be owned and protected by members of their sect begins with the introduction of one of their most venerated Acharyas. His name was Sri Azhagiya Manavaala Jiyar. Who was he? A website http://koyil.org/index.php/vadhikesariazhagiyamanavalajiyarmutt/ provides a brief hagiography ofContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 7″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 5
The history of the whole world tells us clearly that at the root of all great human conflicts is the inability of Man to know Truth first and to then Reconcile himself to it. Conflicts arise and continue to fester and outrage us only because one side of the conflict believes its version of TruthContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 5”
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 1
The 2022 Annual “Brahmothsavam Festival” of the famous Sri Varadaraja Perumal Temple at Kanchipuram has been been celebrated this fortnight with tumultuous popular fanfare, piety, ardor and religious exuberance. It climaxed in the great “Garuda Seva” procession of the Deity through the streets of the town where hundreds of thousands of devotees from all allContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 1″