Vivekananda on the Vedas (part 142)

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON THE VEDAS AND UPANISHADS

By Sister Gayatriprana

part 142

c) The South Became the Repository of Vedic Learning, the Backbone of the Hindu Religion

The Muslim tried for centuries to subjugate the South, but can scarcely be said to have got even a strong foothold; and when the strong and united empire of the Moguls was very near completing its conquest, the hills and plateaus of the South poured in their bands of fighting peasants and horsemen, determined to die for the religion which Ramdas preached and Tuka sang; and in a short time the gigantic empire of the Moguls was only a name.(6)

In the South, again, was born the wonderful Sayanacharya - the strength of whose arms, vanquishing the Muslims, kept King Bukka on his throne, whose wise counsels gave stability to the Vidyanagar kingdom, whose state policy established lasting peace and prosperity in the Deccan, whose superhuman genius and extraordinary industry produced the commentaries on the whole Vedas - and the product of whose wonderful sacrifice, renunciation and researches was the Vedantic treatise named Panchadashi - that sannyasin Vidyaranya Muni or Sayana, was born in this land.(7)

The South [remained] the repository of Vedic learning, and… [therefore], in spite of reiterated assertions of aggressive ignorance, [today] it is the Shruti that is still the backbone of all the different divisions of the Hindu religion.(8)

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The kingdom was known as Vijayanagara not Vidyanagar. Sayanacharya is

not the same as Vidyaranaya. Vidyaranaya was the Sanakaracharya of Sarada

Peeth in Sringeri and also guided the founding of the Vijayanagara empire.

Sayanacharaya was the guru for the Vijayanagara kings after Vidyaranaya.

Vidyaranaya wrote Panchadasi and Sayanacharaya wrote commentaries on the

Vedas.

 

regards,

--Sunil

 

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>Parts 1 to 141 were posted earlier. This is part 142. Your comments are

>welcome... Vivekananda Centre London

>Earlier postings can be seen at

>http://www.vivekananda.btinternet.co.uk/veda.htm

>

>SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON THE VEDAS AND UPANISHADS

>By Sister Gayatriprana

>part 142

>

>c) The South Became the Repository of Vedic Learning, the Backbone of the

>Hindu Religion

>

>The Muslim tried for centuries to subjugate the South, but can scarcely be

>said to have got even a strong foothold; and when the strong and united

>empire of the Moguls was very near completing its conquest, the hills and

>plateaus of the South poured in their bands of fighting peasants and

>horsemen, determined to die for the religion which Ramdas preached and Tuka

>sang; and in a short time the gigantic empire of the Moguls was only a

>name.(6)

>

>In the South, again, was born the wonderful Sayanacharya - the strength of

>whose arms, vanquishing the Muslims, kept King Bukka on his throne, whose

>wise counsels gave stability to the Vidyanagar kingdom, whose state policy

>established lasting peace and prosperity in the Deccan, whose superhuman

>genius and extraordinary industry produced the commentaries on the whole

>Vedas - and the product of whose wonderful sacrifice, renunciation and

>researches was the Vedantic treatise named Panchadashi - that sannyasin

>Vidyaranya Muni or Sayana, was born in this land.(7)

>

>The South [remained] the repository of Vedic learning, and? [therefore], in

>spite of reiterated assertions of aggressive ignorance, [today] it is the

>Shruti that is still the backbone of all the different divisions of the

>Hindu religion.(8)

>

 

 

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