11-15-2004, 04:09 PM
<b>It is clear that this fellow Vidyashankar is a partisan of the Shringeri guys.</b>
While i have crossed swords with Vidyasankar in one of my previous avatars either in Indic tradiions or in IC, he is generally factually accurate and his site on sringeri is no exception
http://members.tripod.com/~maddi/aboutname.htm
Kanchi was not one of the maths established originally by Adi Sankara. That does not make the Kanchi Acharya a lesser individual. In fact he has been socially far more active as Hauma has remarked. One need not put down one math to establish the richness of the other. Each of the mathas caters to a different set of clientale and as in my case to a common subset. In any event this is not the time to bicker over who is the greater - they all have a role to play. Only a Hindu would cavil on the finer points of advaita, while fighting on the battlefield against a formdiable adversary. I have posted elsewhere excerpts from the dialogues with the guru who is one of the acharyas at sirngeri.
But as a daily reference i spend more timeat the Kanchi site which has lot more material
While i have crossed swords with Vidyasankar in one of my previous avatars either in Indic tradiions or in IC, he is generally factually accurate and his site on sringeri is no exception
http://members.tripod.com/~maddi/aboutname.htm
Kanchi was not one of the maths established originally by Adi Sankara. That does not make the Kanchi Acharya a lesser individual. In fact he has been socially far more active as Hauma has remarked. One need not put down one math to establish the richness of the other. Each of the mathas caters to a different set of clientale and as in my case to a common subset. In any event this is not the time to bicker over who is the greater - they all have a role to play. Only a Hindu would cavil on the finer points of advaita, while fighting on the battlefield against a formdiable adversary. I have posted elsewhere excerpts from the dialogues with the guru who is one of the acharyas at sirngeri.
But as a daily reference i spend more timeat the Kanchi site which has lot more material