[Advaita-l] Shenkottai AavuDai AkkaaL - a Tamil Advaitin woman saint

[V Subrahmanian]

Shenkottai AavuDai AkkaaL - a Tamil Advaitin woman saint


> Shenkottai Avudai Akkal
> <https://www.amazon.in/Shenkottai-Avudai-Akkal/e/B00E7HD3DI>
>

For those who can read Tamil, here is a very interesting account of the
life of Aavudai Akkaal:

https://senkottaisriram.blogspot.com/2014/10/blog-post.html?fbclid=IwAR3bMDhK1Lm8rdHYokrtSrz07DkNU-mavnNnT6Pps7--LbzdLC2yM-xROxg

The ChuuDaalaa I mentioned below from Yoga VasishTha finds a place in the
above saint's songs.


>
> https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-2411591701/transgressing-the-boundaries-avudai-akkal-an-advaitic
>
> //The brightest star in the sky of Advaita Vedanta is the 18th century
> woman sage Avudai Akkal of Tamil Nadu, henceforth referred to as Akka, who
> used the mode of song to expound Vedantic philosophy to women in general,
> and Brahmin widows in particular, having personally experienced the
> oppression and humiliation to which they were subjected. The brilliant
> metaphorical play in her compositions weaves together the two fundamental
> requirements for the practice of Vedanta: viveka, discrimination between
> the Real and the unreal, using systematic self-inquiry as a methodological
> tool; and vairagya, dispassion or withdrawal from all things one is
> familiar with and attaches to (house, family, progeny, property,
> possessions, work domain, identity, community etc.).//
>
> https://www.thehindu.com/br/2003/12/30/stories/2003123000121600.htm
>
> *Compositions of Avudai Akkal*
>
> *SENKOTTAI AVUDAI AKKAL PADAL THIRATU: Published by Swami Nityananda Giri,
> Sri Gnananda Niketan,Thapovanam, Villupuram Tamil Nadu-605756. Rs. 60.*
>
>
http://shenkottaisriavudaiakkal.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

warm regards
subrahmanian.v