by M.K. Sudarshan August 2, 2026 : Chennai, India Here below is an imaginary, freewheeling conversation between a bright young Philosophy major student and the Unknown Sri Vaishnava Characters: Setting:A bright, sunlit stone-pillared pavilion (Mandapam) attached to a historic temple in South India. The warm afternoon light washes over the intricately carved pillars. Scattered palm-leafContinue reading ““The Threshold of the Infinite”: A Socratic Dialogue in the Ubhaya Vedanta Tradition”
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“Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven” versus the Sri Vaishnava Ideal of “Nitya Kainkarya Praapthi”
Understanding Sri Vaishnava Soteriology with the aid of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’. (A) A comparative glance at moksha and salvation in the three Vedānta schools, Christianity, and Islam Across traditions, liberation or salvation — moksha — is conceived as the final release from bondage, suffering, and separation from the divine. But the nature of that release differs remarkably in ontology,Continue reading ““Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven” versus the Sri Vaishnava Ideal of “Nitya Kainkarya Praapthi””
The Buddhist Way today’s young Hindus think
This article, “Why Buddhism faded in the land of its birth?“, I read today in the NEW INDIAN EXPRESS: http://dhunt.in/ZK9Dc written by one Renuka Narayan. It’s an interesting piece but very debatable in many of its theses. But it is not my intention here to try and poke holes like a pedantic historian into RenukaContinue reading “The Buddhist Way today’s young Hindus think”
The element of “kainkaryam” in the conception of “moksham” in “Sri Raamaanuja Siddhaantham”
A friend of mine who is a serious student of Sri Vaishnava philosophy posed the following question to me via an email this morning. And my reply to him also is reproduced below. On 17 Jun 2022, at 12:05 PM, Ranga Rajan wrote: Swamin,Hope you remember me—making a small presentation on your book in theContinue reading “The element of “kainkaryam” in the conception of “moksham” in “Sri Raamaanuja Siddhaantham””