[Advaita-l] Bajanai sambradayam

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

It is difficult to do Upasana of Nirguna Brahma. Saguna Brahma Upasana is
easier. Nothing wrong in singing Bhajans. They have to be encouraged.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 7:43 PM Manas Bharadwaaj via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Hari Om,
>
> I'll try to elaborate. The interesting thing about the Bhajanai Sampradayam
> is that all the Swamigals of the Dakshina Paddathi are Smarthas and
> Advaitins. They mainly focus on singing the glories of the lord from the
> following advaitic texts: Bodhendral Swamigal (59th Acharya of Kanchi
> Kamakoti Peetham), Shridhara Ayyaval (Another great Advaitin, a
> contemporary of Bodhendra Swamigal), Sadhguru Swamigal (Another Advaitin,
> who searched really hard the adishthanam in Govindapuram of Bodhendral
> Swamigal). They also sing the kirtanas of Sadashiva Brahmendral, Narayana
> Teerthar, Jayadevar, Narayana Bhattadri, and many other advaitic Stutis
> from Ramayanam and Bhagavatam. We may find some dwaita works from other
> sampradayas like Saint Thukaram, Saint Chaitanya, etc, but the sampradayam
> when performed by Smarthas (which are most people), actually give a holding
> stick for common public as a means to get involved with their own Smartha
> Sampradaya.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> MB
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 7:29 AM Aravind M via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > https://youtu.be/fImWcQhED54
> >
> > This video elaborates on the topic
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Jul, 2022, 1:31 pm Aravind M, <aravindeie13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > In Tamilnadu there is a new nama sankirtana movement in the name of
> > > bodhendral and other saints..the upanyasakals of the sambradayam claim
> > > themselves as avatar of lord Narayana..most of the tamil smartas are
> > > hearing to their lectures.they even deliver talks in kanchi mutt also
> > ..how
> > > does shankara sambradayam recognise their roles.. actually I feel that
> > they
> > > are misguiding and deviating smartas from the path of shankara
> > >
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-Venkatesh