[Advaita-l] About Shri Vidyasankar ji

[Vikram Jagannathan]

Namaskaram Acharya ji,

I believe you are referring to Shri Mani Varadarajan ji. I have seen some of their correspondences in the old Bhakti archives.

Shri Vidyasankar ji, through his emails on Advaita list, is one of my gurus. In terms of his clarity of thoughts and directions I consider him next only to my guru Swami Chinmayananda ji. I do miss his messages and consider myself unfortunate to not be able to interact with him directly.

I have downloaded and saved several of his messages from the archives. Some of his articles that have significantly deepened my understanding of Advaita, particularly to better understand Swami Sankaracharya’s bhashya, includes the excellent series on Anandamayadhikarana and his reappraisal of yoga in Advaita (part of a published book).

My sashtanga namaskarams to him and pray to Lord Sriman Narayana for his health and recovery.

with humble prostrations,
Vikram

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> On Jan 27, 2024, at 11:55 PM, Kuntimaddi Sadananda <kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Vikramji - PraNAms
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> Thanks for reminding us about Shree Vidyashankarji - there used to be elaborate discussions between Vidya and a gentleman from Vishishtadvaita (I forgot his name), even before this internet group came into existence. 
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> Does anyone know how he is doing? I talked to his sister or so, a few years ago. 
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> I pray that he is doing fine.
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> I learned a lot from his posts. 
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> Hari Om!
> Sadananda
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> On Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 10:09:01 AM GMT+5:30, Vikram Jagannathan via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> Namaskaram Shri Krishna swami,
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> Adding to Shri Subbu ji's references, I am reminded of an old & excellent
> email from Shri Vidyasankar ji on this subject:
> https://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2001-July/001736.html
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> The crux is that, paraphrasing, though the term sad-asad-vilakshana is
> perhaps coined by other acharyas, the spirit and intent of this term is
> close to Swami Sankaracharya himself.
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> with humble prostrations,
> Vikram