[Advaita-l] SC stops coronation of Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati as Shankaracharya of Jyotish Peeth

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2022, S Jayanarayanan via Advaita-l wrote:

> This is surprising, to say the least! Does anyone know more about this?
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> https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-stops-coronation-of-swami-avimukteshwaranand-saraswati-as-shankaracharya-of-jyotish-peeth/article66014458.ece

The dispute over the succession of Jyotirmath goes back to the mid-20th 
century.  I had hoped that after the recent patabhisheka of Swami 
Sadananda for Dwarka and Swami Avimukteshwaranda for the Jyotirmath, the 
whole mess would finally be over but apparently not.

During the original controversy, it was Karpatri Swami, the dean of the 
Dashnami sannyasi community in Kashi, who adjudicated the dispute which 
ended up with Swami Swarupananda become acharya of Dwarka and Jyotirmath. 
This time, it was Swami Swarupananda himself who chose his successors and 
the Dashanami akhadas feel that they should have been consulted again. 
And Shringeri acharya performing the vidhi is also ruffling some feathers 
because it is being seen as Shringeri asserting preeminence whereas all 
amnaya maths are equal according to Govardhan math and therefore they 
should have been consulted even if just as a formality.

That's my understanding of the situation anyway.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>