[Advaita-l] Fw: Re: waking, dreaming, sleeping, as mutually supportive

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Hari Om,


Vidyasankarji wrote:
...

>  and the Haldipur
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> Vaishya Math in Karnataka (www.vaishyagurumath.org) are both seats of
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> saMnyAsin lineages from merchant communities and both have historical
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> records of getting initiation from the Sringeri AcAryas.
>

Is it initiation into saMnyAsa or peeThArohaNa? Atleast about Haldipur
maTha, AFAIK, the peeThAdipati is installed by the Sringeri AcArya, but not
initiated into saMnyAsa, because Sringeri maTha is known to give saMnyAsa
dIkshA only to their successors.


Thanks,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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