[Advaita-l] Sringeri Jagatguru announces His Successor

[V Subrahmanian]

Here is a Kannada news report:

http://epapervijayavani.in/Details.aspx?id=18281&boxid=13552416

subrahmanian.v

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:13 PM, RAMESH RAMANAN via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Dear Members,
> Pranams,
>
> i agree with Sri Vidyasankar totally. In fact, we, ordinary people have no
> business poking our nose into the selection of a successor for Sri Bharathi
> Theertha Mahaswamigal, who is a towering spiritual personality and even he
> does not make the choice of his successor on his own. He seeks and gets the
> blessings of Sri Sharadamba, in accordance with the time-honoured practice
> established by all the preceding acharyas and only then announces the name
> of his successor. Spiritual qualities like maturity of the mind, ripeness
> of dispassion and discrimination, scope for .further spiritual progress,
> are all considered thoroughly and the one candidate with the highest and
> best possible potential is selected with the blessings of Sharadamba. We
> will be committing an apacharam/offence to our Sri Bharathi Theertha Swami
> and also to Sri Sharadamba by questioning the choice of the successor. We
> should humbly and joyously bow to his decisions. The post of a
> Peetadhipathi is not auctionable or transferable in terms of a rotation or
> shift basis.
>
> When Sri Chandrashekara Bharathi Mahaswami was about to be chosen, there
> were many disputes within the Matham with many names being discussed. One
> person was highly qualified in terms of academic and philosophic
> understanding in theory, but he seems to have been a shady and dubious
> character. Sri Shivabhinava Sachchidhananda Bharathi Mahaswami seems to
> have said that instead of nominating him as successor the Math would be
> better off without a successor. So, there lies the issue. Choosing someone
> as a spiritual successor is not the same as choosing a political successor.
> There can be no politics in spiritual choices. Ramesh Ramanan.
>
>
>      On Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 13:29, balagopal ramakrishnan via
> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Namaste,
> The question has come to the wrong place. It should have been addressed to
> the Sringeri Math. Secondly all the answers are at best only guesswork. So
> let's close this thread and keep on keepin on the path of discussing
> advaita vedanta. Can we resolve to keep 2015 away from partisan thoughts. I
> know the 'vyavaharic satta' impels one to jump with such questions and its
> easily said than done to curb it. But as Bhagavan said - "..abhyAsena tu
> kaunteya vairAgyeNa cha gR^ihyate "(BG 6 / 35)
> Regards
> Balagopal
>
>     On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:16 PM, Vishy via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Very well written and very much factual, Sir.
> Sorry , my point is on that of  Shri. DVN Sarma's views
> pranamsViswanarth
>
>
>     On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:10 PM, Vishy via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Very well written and very much factual, Sir.
>
>
>     On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:04 PM, RAMESH RAMANAN via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Dear all,The selection is not on the basis of linguistic or provincial
> considerations. The spiritual merit of the candidates will be kn own only
> to the Acharya who has observed them. Only the highest spiritual
> qualifications matter in the selection of successors to the Peetham. We
> should not superimpose our petty minds on the Acharya and assume that he
> has selected a native Telugu speaker as he himself is a native Telugu.
> Acharyas are above considerations of language. What is the guarantee that
> the nambooodiris and iyers are equally spiritually qualified, though they
> may even be better qualified than the chosen candidate in terms of academic
> and intellectual skills? I am a Tamil and will accept any candidate chosen
> by Acharya without questioning. We should  respect the Acharya's choice and
> wait for the successor's performance in due course. Only then, we will know
> whether the Acharya was right or wrong. Ramesh
>
>
>     On Monday, 5 January 2015, 21:48, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Dear All,
>
> Soon after announcing the name of the successor designate, HH the Jagadguru
> made a remark:
>
> Upon coming to the pīṭham one will not have feelings like 'I belong to this
> or that locality, etc.'  The attitude will be:
>
> अयं निजः परो वेति गणना लघुचेतसाम् |
> उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ||
>
> The conditioned thinking that 'this is mine and that is not' is that of the
> immature.  Those endowed with a broad mentality will view the entire
> universe as their own.
>
> It was significant that the Jagadguru said the above.  True to that saying,
> the Acharyas who occupied the Pīṭham have endeared themselves to people of
> all linguistic and provincial denominations.  They have addressed
> gatherings in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi and Sanskrit. On a daily basis
> they interact with innumerable devotees in these languages.
>
> regards
> subrahmanian.v
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Varadaraja Sharma via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > >>>You can say reservation system is already there because only Telugu
> > speaking people are becoming Swamijis for last 100s of years. If other
> > people are also made Swamijis there will not be any reservation policy.
> >
> > see what has been reported under www.sringeri.net
> >
> >  The Jagadguru Mahaswamiji made the announcement, divinely inspired by
> > Goddess Sharadamba in His Anugraha
> > Bhashanam given during the culmination of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations
> > of His Peetharohanam. The
> > Jagadguru has chosen Brahmachari Kuppa Venkateshwara Prasada Sharma to be
> > His Uttaradhikari -
> >
> > Murty garu.......... sishya sweekara has got some sanctity. Is it not?
> > that is what is reflected in the
> > above official statement of dakshinamnaya sharada pIta.
> >
> > And why can not we leave it at that?
> >
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