RE: Sandhyavandanam & Kainkaryams

[Guest guest]

Dear friends,

 

I am very happy to see that smt Padmini Ranganathan is writing on the

network, since it gives the whole bhakti-list community direct access to

Dr. N.S Anantharangachar who is one of my gurus. Dr. Anantha rangachar has

written about 50-60 books on Visistadvaita : (on both Tamil and Sanskrit

works) and is now going to be completing "Ramanuja Sukti Muktavali", a

treatise on Ramanuja's philosophy in his own words.

 

Dr. Anantharangachar has the unique distinction of lecturing on "the

complete works of Samkara" - a series of lectures on the whole of Samkara

Bhasyas on all major works of Sri Samkaracharya in Bangalore - Bharatiya

Vidya Bhavan. He has done this series for 4 times for the last 30 years.

This is probably a rare feat even among advaitins who have traditionally

belonged to that school. Similarly, he has spent a number of years - FULL

TIME on our philosophy. Unlike many others, Dr. Anantharangachar studied

Sanskrit and Philosophy, became a Principal of Sanskrit College in

Karnataka and continued his research, writing and teaching activities

focussing on only ubhayavedantam. Many others do this kind of work on a

part time basis. He is living a life closer to the ideal path even in these

days of competition and degradation of dharma. Dr. Anantharangachar has

another rare distinction of being very accessible to people who request him

to teach . This amount of knowledge and accessibility is almost like

paratvam and saulabhyam, which is a rare combination of attributes of our

lord Srimannanaryana. I request smt. Padmini Ranganathan to do the

kainkaryam of facilitation between the network folks and Dr.

Anantharangachar (who being about 80 years old may not find it convenient

to communicate via email on a regular basis)

 

adiyen krishna kalale