It is my privilege to translate into English the epistle (“arul mozhi”) on Paramapada Sopanam written in Tamizh by HH Mukkur Azhagiyasingar. Part-1 in this series published in “Vainavan Kural” appeared earlier in the January 2023 issue which can also be accessed below by readers of Part-2 reproduced below . Sudarshan Madabushi Part-3 in thisContinue reading ““Stairway to Salvation” – Part-2 : My English Translation of the 44th Azhagiyasingar’s epistle in Tamil on “parama pada sopanam” of Sri Vedanta Desika”
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Broken adults raising strong children
So true indeed …. But let the community also know that to raise strong children, firstly we need adults who are not broken … In the picture below two Sri Vaishnava children are seen holding up and carrying the palanquin of the Deity. From the “urdhvapundhram” they are seen to be wearing on their foreheadContinue reading “Broken adults raising strong children”
“Stairway to Salvation”: My English Translation of the 44th Azhagiyasingar’s epistle in Tamil on “parama pada sopanam” of Sri Vedanta Desika
Part-2 of this English translation will be published in the February 2023 issue of “Vainavan Kural” magazine (English version). Sudarshan Madabushi
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-56
The animus that has been existing between the two Sri Vaishnava sects for more than half a century shows little sign of abating even today i.e. in the first two decades of the 21st century CE… and most certainly not at all in the principal Tenkalai and Vadakalai temples of Tamil Nadu viz. Sri RangamContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-56″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-55
In this section in the little-known c.1960s pamphlet titled “Ramanuja and Sri Vaishnavas” the subject dealt with by Doraiswami Iyengar is the rather delicate and controversial question of Idolatry which according to him has become almost a defining characteristic of the modern Sri Vaishnava identity. Once again a brief explanatory note is being penned belowContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-55″
“PRAISE THE HIGH-SOULED”: Words of Wisdom” from 44th Azhagiyasingar Mukkur Swamy’s “arul mozhigal”
It is my privilege to have translated into English the Tamil epistle of HH Sri Mukkur Azhasingar, the 44th Pontiff of Sri Ahobila Mutt, on “PRAISE THE HIGH-SOULED” published in the February 2023 issue of Sri Nrisimha Priya (English edition) Part-2 of the translation will be published in the March 2023 issue of Sri NrisimhaContinue reading ““PRAISE THE HIGH-SOULED”: Words of Wisdom” from 44th Azhagiyasingar Mukkur Swamy’s “arul mozhigal””
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-54
Failing to effectively repel hostile calumny and criticisms by other schools of Hindu religion against Sri Vaishnavism. In this section of Doraiswamy Iyengar’s pamphlet titled “Ramanuja and Sri Vaishnavas”, another facet of “ubaya-vedanta” in the post-Indian Independence era gets critically examined. Lest the passages written by Doraiswamy Iyengar are misunderstood or misinterpreted, I offer belowContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-54″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-53
Concoction of undesirable biography of Ramanujacharya. The harshest criticism against Sri Vaishnavas found in the Doraiswamy Iyengar-pamphlet has been reserved for vast body of the community’s canonical literature developed and written over half-a-century since the time of Ramanujacharya, Vedanta Desika and Manavaala Maamuni. The literature is available even today in Sanskrit, Mani Pravalam and TamilContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-53″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-52
While the editorial published in the May 2022 issue of “The Voice of Sri Vaishnavas” (“vainavan kural“) dealt with the question of present-day Sri Vaishnava identity in polite, gingerly, and rather very general and superficial terms, the c. 1960s pamphlet of M.A Doraiswamy Iyengar titled “Sri Ramanuja and Sri Vaishnavas” was far more nuanced, forthrightContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-52″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-51
To any modern student of sociology interested in an academic study of the community of Sri Vaishnavas in India, it is very likely that it would appear as though the question of their identity — i.e. “who are we really?”, “where did we come from?”, “how have we changed and adapted”?… and, “where are weContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedantins”: Part-51″