[Advaita-l] Is there Tapta Mudra Dharana in Srivaishnava Sampradaya?

[V Subrahmanian]

Tapta Mudra Dharana, etc. criticized by Hemadri

Hemādri is well known for his Dharma śāstra work in four volumes. He has
touched upon a very large number of aspects of conduct by people who wish
to follow the path of Dharma. In the Vol.IV of the work ‘Chaturvarga
Chintamani’, this author has a chapter for the criticism of the practice of
branding one’s body by hot-metal images of religious insignia like the
shankha, chakra, linga, etc.


A file on the above topic is available here for download:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ia5e7xcc1p62v2g/Taptamudradharana_tatparigraha_ninda.pdf

regards

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 11:49 AM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 10:31 AM Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Namaste
>>
>> I like to know Is there Tapta Mudra Dharana in Srivaishnava Sampradaya of
>> Iyengars? Some people say No some people say Yes. But I got no
>> authoritative answer. Madhvas are getting ready for large scale Tapta
>> Mudra
>> Dharana on Prathama Ekadasi coming next week.
>>
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> https://www.indiadivine.org/content/topic/1543822-sri-vedanta-desika-on-tapa-mudras/
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> //SrI VEdAnta DESika's Saccharitra-raksha deals with this
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> issue. It has three chapters :
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> 1. SudarSana-aadi-dhAraNa-adhikAraH {Chapter on the bearing
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> of SudarSana <chakra> etc <symbols on the body> }.
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> In this chapter, lots of objections are considered against the
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> tApa-samskAra <as practised by SrI-VaishNavas> and appropriate
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> refutations are presented. It is filled with Copious quotations
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> (actually " mind-boggling " will be the befitting adjective for
>
> this case) from all the four vEdas with the explanations as
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> found in the upa-brahmanas like pAn~carAtra samhitas, many
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> smrutis, purANas, HarivamSa/IthihAsa and even from upa-purANas.
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> My article on SamASrayaNam contains a sub-set of these
> quotations.//
>
> regards
> subbu
>
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>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> -Venkatesh
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