Sri Deva Sthanam

Sri Vaishnavism and Ramanuja

admin — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:14:21 +0000

Note: In India there are many schools of Vaisnavism, and they are generally named after the particular founder that initially propounded them. Consequently, there is the Vaisnavism styled after Madhva, Nimbarka, Vallabha, Caitanya, Ramananda, Jayadeva, Jnanesvara, and so on. Each of these different schools of Vaisnavism has adapted itself to meet the local religious, social and language conditions…

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Vadakalai/Tenkalai Doctrinal Differences

admin — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:18:06 +0000

The divisions that developed within the Sri Vaisnava community in the centuries after Ramanuja are the result of doctrinal differences, the roots of which, can be traced back to the time of the Alvars and the acaryas. The actual split into two schools, the Vadakalai and the Tenkalai did not occur until the time of Manavala Mamuni in the 17th century. Sometimes the terms vadakalaiand tenkalai are…

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British Orientalism

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:59:53 +0000

British Orientalism (1772 to 1835) was a unique phenomenon in British Indian history that was inspired by the needs of the East India Company to train a class of British administrators in the languages and culture of India. This period of British Indian began in 1772 with the coming to power of Warren Hastings (1732–1818), the first and perhaps most famous of the British governors general of India.

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Sri Vaisnavism after Ramanuja

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:45:47 +0000

Ramanuja Acarya (1017-1137 A.D.) Page 3 – Sri Vaisnavism after Ramanuja As long as Ramanuja was alive, Sri Vaisnavas attached equal importance to both the Sanskrit and Tamil sides of their tradition. They stayed together as one group following the beliefs and practices of the acaryas and the Alvars. After Ramanuja however, certain teachers tended to emphasise the Sanskrit Vedas, while others emphasised […]

Michael Madhusudan Datta

admin — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:59:50 +0000

Datta, Michael Madhusudan, Born January 25, 1824, Sagardari, Bengal — died June 29, 1873, Calcutta. Poet and dramatist of modern Bengali literature. Michael Madhusudan Dutt, or simply Madhusudan Datta as he was known before his conversion to Christianity, was the son of a successful Calcutta lawyer. He is important for his contributions to Bengali poetry.

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Bhaktivinoda Biography

admin — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:38:49 +0000

Bhaktivinoda, Kedarnath Datta, Born September 2, 1838, Birnagar, Bengal — died June 18, 1914, Calcutta. Vaishnava theologian, songwriter and religious leader. Born of a wealthy family of landowners in 1838, Kedarnath Datta Bhaktivinoda grew up in a traditional Hindu household of rural Bengal. He lived in his maternal grandfather’s home in the village of Birnagar (Ula) 60 miles (100 Km) north of…

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The Bengal Renaissance

admin — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:58:57 +0000

In 1765 the East India Company took possession of Bengal, Bihar and parts of Orissa from Shah Alam, the Mughal Emperor. As a result, Bengal and its surrounding lands became the first regions in India to experience the direct impact of British rule and the beginnings of modernization. For the remainder of the eighteenth century and throughout the early decades of the nineteenth century…

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Raganuga-bhakti-sadhana of Rupa Gosvami

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:15:16 +0000

Gosvami, Rupa, Born 1489, Bengal – died 1564, Vrindavan, India. Caitanya Vaisnava theologian, poet and dramatist, one of the Six Gosvamis of Vrindavan. The name of Rupa Gosvami is most associated with that of Caitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1533 C. E.), the Bengali saint and proponent of an important Hindu devotional movement that spread throughout Bengal and many parts of North India during the…

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Advaita Vedanta

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:42:33 +0000

Introduction The advaita philosophy is not easy to explain briefly, and it is not my intention to repeat in a www home page what takes whole volumes for accomplished experts. I will content myself with providing a brief synopsis of the various aspects of advaita-vedanta. A very important assumption in all vedanta is that man suffers from bondage in the course of his life in this world.

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Monastic Tradition

admin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:39:16 +0000

Dasa-nami-sampradaya The advaita tradition can be described in terms of two aspects – the textual/philosophical tradition of commentaries and sub-commentaries to thevedanta works, and the religious tradition of renunciation (sannyasa), which is emphasized to a great deal in Sankaracarya’s works. The two aspects are quite intimately related to each other – most of the notable authors in the…

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