Guest guest Posted July 20, 1995 Report Share Posted July 20, 1995 >sreekrishna > RS quoted > >Guru Nanak satirized the thread of the dvija > >as an outward show, empty of meaning, when the > >real thread is the thread of bhakti etc. > Following are noteworthy to "murky up" this issue. Ramanuja as a child is believed to have put pooNool around untouchable children and this was one of the reasons the people of Sri perumbudoor turned against his family. He might be the one who put pooNool on all the aazhvaars including paaNa in temples. Incidentally Srivaishnava Sanyasi's have the option of wearing or not wearing the pooNal. Advaitic Sanyasi's remove the pooNal. {Sankaracharyas do not have pooNal. Jeeyar's have it.) BasavaNNa (who lived towards to end of Ramanuja's time) cut his pooNool in public and declared it un-necsaary. He called his philosaphy "saiva visistadvaitham" borrowing on the philosophy of Ramanuja. Ramanuja's followers avoided the Saivite temples because they did not respect Ramanuja's words. BasavaNNa's followers on the other hand boycotted all temples. They had their own personal lingam worn on their neck. The two people might have met. There is no mention in Srivaishanava histories. I do not know from the other sources. So there have been other people before Guru Nanak. Anyway Guru Nanak's existance was quite unknown outside his region, until recently. Srinivasan K [basavaNNa's followers call themselves veera saiva and are a powerful community in Karnataka. There are few in bordering Tamil areas as well. The north American Veera Saivas hold an annual meet in Eastern US.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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