Dr.SMS Chari attains AchAryan Thiruvadi on Nov 5, 2008

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Dr. SMS Chari Dr. S.M.Srinivasa Chari ( Dr.SMS Chari)

attained his AachAryan's sacred feet at

the age of 89 on Iyppasi SravaNam day

( November 5,2008) at Los Angeles ,

California . At the time of his passing

away , he was busy editing a new

monograph on Swamy Desikan's

Sri Kosam of Dramidopanishad

Taatparya RatnaavaLi .

 

His revered Acharyan was the late

Ghoshtipuram Sowmyanarayanacchar

Swamy . Dr.Chari had also completed

Kaalkshepams under the late

Putttankottai Srinivasacharya Swami,

and Sri Saragur Varadacharya Swami

and has been commended by many

AchAryas for his prolific and scholarly

contributions to Vedantic literature .

 

Dr.SMS Chari , a highly regarded Sampradhayic

Scholar of Vedanta in general and Bhagavad Raamanuja

siddhantam in particular is an author of many important

and lucid monographs in English covering a wide range of

Vedantic subjects rooted in the commentaries of

Poorvacharyaas . Some of the authoritative

and scholarly books released by Dr.SMS Chari are:

 

(1) Vaishnavism-its Philosophy ,Theology

and Religious discipline (2) Advaita and

Visishtadvaita based on Swamy Desikan's Sata

Dhushani (3) Fundamentals of Visishtadhvaita

based on Sawmy Desikan's Tattva Mukta Kalaapa

(4) The Philosophy of Vedanta Sutras

(5) The Philosphy of Upanishads

(6) The Philosophy of Bahgavad Gita

(7) AdhikaraNa SaarAvaLi of Swamy Desikan

(8) The Philosophy and Theistic Mysticism of the Alvars

(9) Para Mata Bhangam based on Swamy Desikan's

SrI Sookthy dealing with Sva Paksha Sthapanam and

Para Mata Kantanam .

 

The students of Vedanta will miss this

great sampradhayic scholar known for

his vinayam and scholarship .

 

adiyEn had the good fortune of keeping

in touch with him , whenever he was in USA

and shared with adiyEn about the progress in

the creation of his many of his books .

 

For adiyEn , it is a deep personal loss .

 

Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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T.G Ramamurthi

Dr.V.Sadagopan

Sunday, November 09, 2008 4:46 AM

Re: Fw: sms chari.

 

Dear Sadagopan Swamin.

Sorry to learn about revered SMS.

I used to know him in Delhi, when he was staying in Pandara Road.

Awaiting your note before 15th November. Will appear in Decr. isssue.

Novr. issue of both English and Tamil are altready out.

Regards

TGR

On 11/9/08, Dr.V.Sadagopan <yennappan wrote:

 

Dear Krishna :

 

The write up is very good .

The only change that I would suggest is

that " He attained his Acharyan's Thiruvadi "

instead of "The Lord's Thiruvadi" .

VaikunTha Vaasi Dr.SMS Chari

is probably a SishyA of SrI Matham .

 

Regarding the biodata for Obituary /

announcement , no need to add anything

extra for the Hindu and possibly

Deccan Herald. Based on space restraints,

they might condense . I will send the elists

the sad news of Dr.SMS Chari's passing away.

I will also send a note to the Managing Editor of

Sri Nrusimha PriyA , English Edition

( Dr.T.G.Ramamurthy ) for their announcement .

 

I have copied my nephew , who is an

Executive at The Hindu . He can pass it on

to the Religion Correspondent of The Hindu

to announce the passing away of this MahAn ,

who opened our eyes to the loftiness of

Bhagavath RaamAnuja SiddhAntham

with his prolific writings .

 

I will miss him like yourself . Please pass my

sincere condolences to the Family

 

I will announce to the elists

( Oppiliappan , Saranagathy , Thiruvenkadam ,

Desika SampradhAyam , Raamanuja and

Desika , Sri Ranga Sri and Malolan Net)

about the passing away of Dr.SMS Chari .

 

I am glad to know that Dr.SMS Chari met

with Srimad Azhagiya Singar recently and had

his AaservAdhams .

 

Srimad Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE

SaraNam ,

 

V.Sadagopan

- Krishna Kashyap

Dr. V. Sadagopan

Saturday, November 08, 2008 6:47 PM

sms chari.

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