QUIZ (SrI Ramanuja's greatest contribution)

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SrImatE bhagavatE SrI-bhAshyakAra mahA-dESikAya nama:

 

aDiyEn thinks that the greatest significance of bhagavad-rAmAnuja's

avataaram is his revelation of the most subtle SarIrAtma-bhaavam

intrinsically embedded in the Vedas themselves, which he uses to

consistently explain the true import of the vedaanta in its

_entirety_, rejecting neither the bheda-Sruti nor the abheda-Sruti.

 

Without a proper understanding of the true relationship between the

ISvara, jIva-s & the world as revealed in the most fundamental

vaidika-concept of SarIraatma-bhaavam by bhagavad-raamaanuja, even

aazvaar SrI-sUktis could mislead & stump a sincere seeker.

 

Of course, bhagavad-rAmAnuja could easily recognize the key concept

of SarIraatma-bhaavam intrinsically found in the veda-s due to the

Divine Grace of the aazhvaars.

Ironically, though SrI namaazvaar is glorified in the tradition

as "vEdam tamizh seyda maaran", even some of namaazhvaar's

emotionally bhakti-laden SrI suukiti's could stump & mislead a

sincere philosophical seeker without a proper objective understanding

of the underlying Sariiraatma-bhaavam (as revealed in the vEda-s)

also.

 

Thus it is aDiyEn's belief that bhagavad-rAmAnuja's greatest gift is

his vedaantically authentic SrI suuktis which guard even aazhvaar's

own paasurams (some of which can be as ambiguous as the veda's

themselves)

 

It is no wonder that svAmi SrI vEdanta-dESikan glorifies bhagavad-

rAmAnuja's SrI suukti-ss in SrI-paadukaa-sahasram thus:

 

"jayati yati-raaja-suuktiH

jayati mukundasya paadukaa yagalii

tad ubhaya-dhanaa: tri-vEdiim

avandhyayantaH jayati bhuvi-santaH" [srImad-paadukaa-sahasram"

 

 

aDiyEn Ramkumar rAmAnuja-dAsan