gitAmRta-mahodadhiH

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Harih Om Prof.V. K.:.

 

As a member and as the list maintainer, I want to congratulate you for

several scholarly posts.We are very fortunate to have you in this forum

and we look forward to your postings on key topics of Vedanta and

related philosophicies. It is nice of you to share with us the

inspiring writings by your father. I just want to assure you that you

are not taking liberties with members of Advaitin to impose your

father's mss. on us.

On the contraray, we want to thank you for introducing the scholarly

work of your father with unselfish dedication and humility. Please

don't hesitate and continue posting whatever you think is relevant and

useful.

 

Namaskarams,

--

Ram Chandran

Burke, VA

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>"V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk

>

>

>

>dear advaitins,

>Since I find so much scholarly discussion of advaita in this forum I

>make bold to introduce my father's mss. gItAmRta-mahodadhiH to you.

>The author R. Visvanatha Sastri (1882-1956) worked in the judicial

>department (and retired as Sub-Court Sheristadar, Cuddalore, in 1939)

>but had also a gurukula vedanta training from Sri Vasudeva-brahmendra,

>a sanyasi of Ganapathi Agraharam. Sri RVS has left around 27 original

>mss. all on advaita, all written in grantha script. The largest (and

>chronologically, the last but one or two, in his lifetime) is this,

>consisting of 2400 anuSTup verses. It has five chapters called

>AzvAsAH, entitled - brahma, praNava, advaita, JAna, yogA-zvAsAH. He

>has himself given a prose commentary of them all grouping them into a

>few verses at a time. Together it all runs to 850 pages. The whole

>work is, in my opinion, a masterly thesis on advaita, using the gItA

>and upaniSads as spring-board. I have transliterated the entire

>thing into devanagari by hand and this mss. of mine is now in the

>Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institue, Mylapore Madras. Right now I am

>putting the original mss. into the computer acc. to Kyoto-Harvard

>Convention. Along with the work I am also trying my hand at

>translation of the same, though not word by word, at least by giving

>english summaries after every break given by the author himself. Below

>I am giving for your information, a sample of two pages of this

>resulting work. The sample comes from the first chapter which

>contains 510 verses. The english portion is mine (which is subject to

>approval after scrutiny by experts); the sanskrit portion (consisting

>of the zloka part and the prose vyAkhyAna part) is totally that of

>the author. If the rs of 'Advaitin' are interested, I am

>willing to give extracts from the mss. at certain intervals of time,

>serially from the beginning. At the same time let it not be construed

>that I am taking liberties with members of Advaitin to impose my

>father's mss. on them.

 

Professor Krishnamurthy,

 

I am delighted to read the verses from your father's text. They are

contemplative. It is not an imposition, it is an invitation for us to

enjoy. Please give as much of the gItAmRtam as you can spare.

 

Hari Om!

Sadananda

 

K. Sadananda

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Naval Research Laboratory

Washington D.C. 20375

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In a message dated 12/3/98 3:26:18 PM Pacific Standard Time,

chandran writes:

 

<< Ram Chandran <chandran

 

Harih Om Prof.V. K.:.

 

As a member and as the list maintainer, I want to congratulate you for

several scholarly posts.We are very fortunate to have you in this forum

and we look forward to your postings on key topics of Vedanta and

related philosophicies. It is nice of you to share with us the

inspiring writings by your father. I just want to assure you that you

are not taking liberties with members of Advaitin to impose your

father's mss. on us.

On the contraray, we want to thank you for introducing the scholarly

work of your father with unselfish dedication and humility. Please

don't hesitate and continue posting whatever you think is relevant and

useful.

>>

 

Dear Ram Chandraji,

Namaskar. I am very greatfull to all the members that you mention above.

Thankyou for mentaining this list in such a way; every morning I weak up to

see what is there for me. I try to read all & try to understand. I t helps me

a lot in my study of Yoga Vasistha, Ramayana & Bhagbatam. I feel like the

grace of God is showering through your List.

Just by reading different articles I feel like I got lot more than I could ask

for. Although never enough, it is getting more & more interesting.

Please pardon me for being a silent listener for now. I feel very fotunate to

be one of the member of such a wondefull list.

My Pranam to all GURUJIS. Thank you.

Raju Chhatry

http://serenitywalks.com