[Chaturamnaya] Life and Teachings of His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyateertha Mahaswamigal - 1

[S Jayanarayanan via Chaturamnaya]

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Life  and  Teachings  of His  Holiness  Jagadguru  Sri  Abhinava  Vidyateertha Mahaswamigal
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In our land the Guru tradition has been very long and it is an unbroken line of succession of
great teachers. They have left behind their valuable teachings for us to study, assimilate
and be benefited. The accounts of their lives and many ancecdotes connected with them are
extremely valuable to us, for they are not only interesting but also inspire and encourage us
to emulate them, with all humility, and thereby rise in the ladder of spirituality step by step.
Sri Abhinava Vidyateertha Mahaswamigal (Srinivasan, before taking up sannyas) was a rare sage,
who was born in a middle class family, which valued the scriptures more than the material wealth.
Even at a very young age, the desire for worldly possessions and passion was innately absent in him.

Providence took him to a very great Mahatma, Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswamigal,
the 34th Pontiff of Sringeri Sharada Peetham when he was a young boy. He renounced the world
before completing 14 years of age. Sri Abhinava Vidyateertha Mahaswamigal was a scholar par
excellence in Tarka and Vedanta. He adorned the sacred Sringeri Sharada Peetham and brought
glory to it during the 35 years of His pontificate as its 35th Jagadguru Shankaracharya.
The very embodiment of compassion, the Acharya graced innumerable devotees in myriads of ways.
He had the knack of expounding the intricacies of the scriptures in an accurate and yet
clearly-comprehensible manner. His Holiness attained Mahasamadhi on September 21, 1989.

Volume 4 of Paramaartha Tattvam is dedicated to H. H. Sri Sri Abhinava Vidyateertha Mahaswamigal
and will expound the life and teachings of this great Jagadguru.


 vivekinaM mahaapraGYaM dhairyaudaaryakShamaanidhim.h .
 sadaa.abhinavapuurvaM taM vidyAtiirthaguruM bhaje ..
 विवेकिनं महाप्रज्ञं धैर्यौदार्यक्षमानिधिम् .
 सदाऽभिनवपूर्वं तं विद्यातीर्थगुरुं भजे ..

“I ever worship my Guru Sri Abhinava Vidyateertha, endowed with discrimination and great wisdom,
and a repository of courage, generosity and forgiveness.”

— H. H. Bharati Teertha Mahaswamigal, the Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham.




(To be continued)