New Book On Sri Ramanuja Philosophy

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Dear friends,

 

We are happy to announce that a new book has reached the completed

manuscript stage.

This book was written by Dr. N.S. Anantharangachar, who has written roughly

about 40 books on Visistadvaita both on Tamil and Sanskrit works.

Incidentally, I have personally studied under Dr. N S Anantha rangachar.

He is a softspoken modest person though is one of the remaining few great

Ubhaya Vedanta Vidwans today. He has trained dozens of people in

upanishads, bramhasutras, bhagavadvishayam and several works and continues

to do so even today. He is about 80 years old.

 

The work "Ramanuja sukti muktavali", the most recent work of Dr. N.S

Anantha rangachar contains about five

hundred statements of Ramanuja selected from all of his works.These

statements expound the philosophy of Ramanuja in his own words.These

extracts are classified into 12 heads as follows-

 

1]Tattva swaroopa - nature of reality

2]pramanas 3)creation 4)nature of jivatman5)nature of paramatman

6)karma yoga 7)jnana yoga 8)bhakti yoga 9)prapatti 10)Tattvamasi 11)the

nature of moksha 12) general sayings

 

 

THis book will be written in both Kannada and English.

The present scheme is to give the original extracts

with their kannada translation initially, since this version is already

complete.The book may come up to about 480 pages

in kannada.The kannada edition may cost about Rs.62,000/- including cost

of paper,type setting,binding etc.

 

An english edition will be brought out as soon as possible. All the

extracts have to be printed in devanagari script along

with an english translations of those passages.The cost of bringing out

an english edition may come upto Rs.90,000/- or more.The kannada edition

is now ready for print.This is for your kind information.There will be a

short introduction to each section summarising the teaching contained in

the statements.

 

 

DEAR FRIENDS, I requested Smt Nagu Satyan and she suggested that we should

raise some funds to support this work under the auspices of SMSA ( which is

same as SVSS).

 

Lord Krishna says in Gita " shreyo hi dravya mayat yajnat jnana yajnah

parantapa" - an offering of knowledge is superior to material offerings to

God. Further, Gita states that "na hi jnanena sadrisham pavitram iha

vidhyate" - there is nothing more sacred and auspicious here in this world

than "jnana" or knowledge. Considering these ideas, it is quite clear

that, we need to do something to protect our system of thought. The only

way we can protect our system of thought is to bring out more and more

books on our system of thought and publish them widely so that our

generation can have access to them and pass them over to our next

generations. Only by learning and teaching of these principles we can

protect visistadvaita. The protection and preservation of our ancient

visistadvaitic culture and philosophy cannot be done using any other means

.. We need to support these publications. Kindly support this noble cause

undertaken by Dr. N.S. Anantha rangachar by appropriate donations. We will

try to bring out several books in our siddhantam. THe kannada version of

this book "Ramanuja sukti muktavali" costs about $1500 and the english

version costs about $2250.

 

UNITED STATES & CANADA:

 

Please send Checks payable to

"SMSA, Inc"

 

Sri Vaishnava Seva Samithi

c/o Smt. Nagu Satyan

7821 West Alder Drive

Littleton, CO 80128-5522

 

thanking you,

 

Krishna Kalale