[Advaita-l] brahma shrii and popular speakers

[V Subrahmanian]

You are very close to the correct meaning.  The word 'Brahma' also means
'Veda'.  So, this person who has acquired a lot of veda vidyA, vedAnta,
purANa, smRti etc. and a real repository of such vidyA is really endowed
with the vidyA-srI.  His 'srI', wealth, is this veda(vidyaa).  So he is
referred to as BrahmasrI...

Sometimes another word is also added before brahmasrI - vedamUrti
brahmasrI.  In its shortened form it is 've.mu.br.sri'....

Regards,
subbu

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ramakrishna Upadrasta <
uramakrishna at gmail.com> wrote:

> namaste,
>
> I have seen that the names of the popular vedanta speakers from the
> brahmin community are being prefixed with "brahma shri". My
> understanding is that the title is for one who has completed
> kramaanta-paThana or have done a substantial proper gurukula study. Is
> this right? Are there some rules for using it?
>
> namaste
> Ramakrishna
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