Jayendra saraswathi biography samples
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Kanchi Sankara Matam
I am writing this blog in the aftermath of a controversy involving Kanchi Junior Sankaracharya over paying respect to Tamil Anthem by standing up. Inspired by the controversy, I started looking for the origin and activities of the matam, I am dumbfounded by the falsity on the founding of the matam. The name Sankaracharya appended to the matathipathis of Kanchi, it seems, does not imply that it was founded by Adi Sankara. The history of the matam is steeped in fraud, dishonesty and deception. Before going into the history of the matam, let me give some background information about the past and present matathipathis.
It is a well-known fact the matam never treats Tamil on par with Sanskrit and also never treats non-Brahmins on par with Brahmins. Agnihotram Ramanuja Thathacharyar in a book reminisced about how Tamil was treated as a ‘theettu’ (tainted) language by the late Chandrasekharendra Sankaracharya of Kanchi. Once the Sankaracharya happened to talk to a wealthy Chettiyar in Tamil after having completed his pooja (pooja recitals are done in Sanskrit). So to wash off the theettu of talking in Tamil, he took bath and went to bed. In recent times, during a yagam, Jayendra Sankaracharya seated A.P.Shinde, a Dalit by birth (then a Union Minister) on the
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And so he fades into the twilight. Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal will be missed for he had a knack of being forever in the news. His death triggered in me memories of the intense Sringeri vs Kanchi wars that were fought in my family during the 1970s and 1980s. The matter faded out thereafter, at least in chez Ramaiya but it did occupy centerstage for a decade and more.
We came from a strongly Sringeri tradition. My paternal grandfather, V Ramaiya, was an amazingly talented civil engineer who rose to very senior levels in the South Indian Railway Company and later became a Sanskrit scholar. His talent in that area was liked by both HH Abhinava Vidyateertha of Sringeri and HH Chandrashekharendra Saraswathi of Kanchi but for all practical purposes he was a Sringeri man.
He never made his inclination public and if you had to see fanatics then you needed to meet my imperious grandmother and my equally imperious aunt. They were both devoted to (aunt was in particular obsessed with) the Sringeri Sarada Peetham (in our house we could never refer to it as the Mutt/Matham) and therefore took no cognisance of the Kanchi Mutt (in our house you never referred to it as the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham).
By some quirk of fate, my dad and the majority of his siblings married into Kanchi fol
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Kanchi seer Sri Jayendra Saraswathi: A prophet who apophthegm it all
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