[Advaita-l] Sringeri Jagatguru announces His Successor

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:52 AM, D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> In order that the peethadhipathis may understand, relate  and communicate
> with the modern society, I think they should have some grounding in modern
> science and technology. If not, they will be more and more alienated from
> the society and loose their relevance. Already their impact on the society
> at large is infinitesimal. The only people who look to them is a very small
> fraction of the society (the priestly class) whose self interest is served
> by exhortations made by the pontiffs to uphold sanatana dharma. It is
> paraspara bhavana. You scratch my back, I will scratch yours. It is high
> time for the pontiffs to get out of this rut and take a fresh look at their
> relevance to the  society.
>

I agree with this. The need of the hour is Swamijis must know how to speak
and attract young people and children. The Youth are not interested in some
old stories from Puranas. They want to see why Brahmin Culture and Vedanta
is relevant in Modern Society. They are already attracted by Western ideas.
Why not attract them to our ideas? In a way Ramakrishna Mission is more
successful than our traditional Maths. But even there the reach is not
much.

There are two important things. One is Reach. Another is Impact. There has
to be a wide reach for Swamijis message. They must use different media like
TV, newspaper, Facebook, Twitter and others. What about Impact? If the
message is delivered to right people at the right time in the right place
that will have Impact.

Swamijis must know how to use modern technology to do this.



>
> regards,
> Sarma.
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Srikrishna Ghadiyaram via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Om!
> > "rituals of pITArOhaNa would start from 22nd Jan'15 which is followed by
> > mahAvAkya anugraha on 23d Jan'15."
> > Would someone clarify, what kind of prior education or training is
> > expected for such selections, here at Singeri or elsewhere, not as a rule
> > but as a general guideline. From the other posts I learn that, for
> Srinegi
> > acayra / peetha adhikara, Yajurveda Adhyayana is the minimum expected. My
> > further question is, is prior education in other Darshanas supposed to
> have
> > been completed; or is the new initiate expected to start such studies
> after
> > the initiation.
> > Related questions are:
> > 1. If, for example, Vedanta studies have been accomplished, how mahAvAkya
> > anugraha will be significant.2. If Vedanta studies have not been
> completed,
> > how mahAvAkya anugraha will make 'complete' sense. Is it traditionally
> > accepted that after mahAvAkya anugraha, the sanyasi will start studies,
> > meaning indirectly that mahAvAkya anugraha does not do the job?
> > Further, in general what mental felicitation the new acarya select is
> > supposed, or we can assume, to have accomplished in the earlier ashrama,
> > and how can we, compare such overall mental felicity in children with
> other
> > secular education, if not in Veda or Tarka etc. This is primarily to
> > compare and contrast what one can accomplish in life, not necessarily to
> > become a pithaadhipati, but to start as an ordinary individual at a
> similar
> > age, but achieve atma jnana, starting at the age of say 21, but
> undergoing
> > studies with similar commitment as the acarya towards dharma.
> > Om !
> > Srikrishna
> >       From: Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> >  To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> >  Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2015 10:42 PM
> >  Subject: [Advaita-l] Sringeri Jagatguru announces His Successor
> >
> > Namaste,
> >
> > One of the joyous moments for us.
> >
> > Shri Bharati Tirtha Swamiji has announced His uttarAdhikAri in sringeri.
> > All the rituals of pITArOhaNa would start from 22nd Jan'15 which is
> > followed by mahAvAkya anugraha on 23d Jan'15.
> >
> > One of the brilliant brahmachArIs of sringeri veda pATashAla shri Kuppa
> > Venkateshwara Prasad has been selected as the uttarAdhikAri who is the
> son
> > of a great vedic & tarka scholar shrI kuppa siva subramanya avadhani
> garu,
> > who served as veda pATashAla principal in Keesaragutta, near Hyderabad,
> and
> > is the veda principal of TTD currently.
> >
> > Let us all pray our due respects to the jagatguru-dwayam of sringeri now.
> >
> > regs,
> > sriram
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Regards

-Venkatesh