[Advaita-l] Sringeri Jagatguru announces His Successor

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

If you look how Adi Sankara appointed Mathadhipatis it is  -

Sringeri South - Sureshwara, North Indian
Puri East - Padmapada, South Indian
Badari  North - Totaka, South Indian
Dwaraka West - Hastamalaka, South Indian

He wanted the country to be Unified. He did not appoint his own Kerala
Namboodiris everywhere. Same Logic must be used today to unify Smarthas.
Otherwise they will become divided if only one particular community is
being rewarded again and again. As it is Sringeri Swamijis don't have any
big impact in many many places even in South India, forget North, East and
West.


On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:32 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Here is a Kannada news report:
>
> http://epapervijayavani.in/Details.aspx?id=18281&boxid=13552416
>
> subrahmanian.v
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:13 PM, RAMESH RAMANAN via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Dear Members,
> > Pranams,
> >
> > i agree with Sri Vidyasankar totally. In fact, we, ordinary people have
> no
> > business poking our nose into the selection of a successor for Sri
> Bharathi
> > Theertha Mahaswamigal, who is a towering spiritual personality and even
> he
> > does not make the choice of his successor on his own. He seeks and gets
> the
> > blessings of Sri Sharadamba, in accordance with the time-honoured
> practice
> > established by all the preceding acharyas and only then announces the
> name
> > of his successor. Spiritual qualities like maturity of the mind, ripeness
> > of dispassion and discrimination, scope for .further spiritual progress,
> > are all considered thoroughly and the one candidate with the highest and
> > best possible potential is selected with the blessings of Sharadamba. We
> > will be committing an apacharam/offence to our Sri Bharathi Theertha
> Swami
> > and also to Sri Sharadamba by questioning the choice of the successor. We
> > should humbly and joyously bow to his decisions. The post of a
> > Peetadhipathi is not auctionable or transferable in terms of a rotation
> or
> > shift basis.
> >
> > When Sri Chandrashekara Bharathi Mahaswami was about to be chosen, there
> > were many disputes within the Matham with many names being discussed. One
> > person was highly qualified in terms of academic and philosophic
> > understanding in theory, but he seems to have been a shady and dubious
> > character. Sri Shivabhinava Sachchidhananda Bharathi Mahaswami seems to
> > have said that instead of nominating him as successor the Math would be
> > better off without a successor. So, there lies the issue. Choosing
> someone
> > as a spiritual successor is not the same as choosing a political
> successor.
> > There can be no politics in spiritual choices. Ramesh Ramanan.
> >
> >
> >      On Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 13:29, balagopal ramakrishnan via
> > Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Namaste,
> > The question has come to the wrong place. It should have been addressed
> to
> > the Sringeri Math. Secondly all the answers are at best only guesswork.
> So
> > let's close this thread and keep on keepin on the path of discussing
> > advaita vedanta. Can we resolve to keep 2015 away from partisan
> thoughts. I
> > know the 'vyavaharic satta' impels one to jump with such questions and
> its
> > easily said than done to curb it. But as Bhagavan said - "..abhyAsena tu
> > kaunteya vairAgyeNa cha gR^ihyate "(BG 6 / 35)
> > Regards
> > Balagopal
> >
> >     On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:16 PM, Vishy via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Very well written and very much factual, Sir.
> > Sorry , my point is on that of  Shri. DVN Sarma's views
> > pranamsViswanarth
> >
> >
> >     On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:10 PM, Vishy via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Very well written and very much factual, Sir.
> >
> >
> >     On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 12:04 PM, RAMESH RAMANAN via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Dear all,The selection is not on the basis of linguistic or provincial
> > considerations. The spiritual merit of the candidates will be kn own only
> > to the Acharya who has observed them. Only the highest spiritual
> > qualifications matter in the selection of successors to the Peetham. We
> > should not superimpose our petty minds on the Acharya and assume that he
> > has selected a native Telugu speaker as he himself is a native Telugu.
> > Acharyas are above considerations of language. What is the guarantee that
> > the nambooodiris and iyers are equally spiritually qualified, though they
> > may even be better qualified than the chosen candidate in terms of
> academic
> > and intellectual skills? I am a Tamil and will accept any candidate
> chosen
> > by Acharya without questioning. We should  respect the Acharya's choice
> and
> > wait for the successor's performance in due course. Only then, we will
> know
> > whether the Acharya was right or wrong. Ramesh
> >
> >
> >     On Monday, 5 January 2015, 21:48, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Dear All,
> >
> > Soon after announcing the name of the successor designate, HH the
> Jagadguru
> > made a remark:
> >
> > Upon coming to the pīṭham one will not have feelings like 'I belong to
> this
> > or that locality, etc.'  The attitude will be:
> >
> > अयं निजः परो वेति गणना लघुचेतसाम् |
> > उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ||
> >
> > The conditioned thinking that 'this is mine and that is not' is that of
> the
> > immature.  Those endowed with a broad mentality will view the entire
> > universe as their own.
> >
> > It was significant that the Jagadguru said the above.  True to that
> saying,
> > the Acharyas who occupied the Pīṭham have endeared themselves to people
> of
> > all linguistic and provincial denominations.  They have addressed
> > gatherings in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi and Sanskrit. On a daily
> basis
> > they interact with innumerable devotees in these languages.
> >
> > regards
> > subrahmanian.v
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Varadaraja Sharma via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > > >>>You can say reservation system is already there because only Telugu
> > > speaking people are becoming Swamijis for last 100s of years. If other
> > > people are also made Swamijis there will not be any reservation policy.
> > >
> > > see what has been reported under www.sringeri.net
> > >
> > >  The Jagadguru Mahaswamiji made the announcement, divinely inspired by
> > > Goddess Sharadamba in His Anugraha
> > > Bhashanam given during the culmination of the Silver Jubilee
> Celebrations
> > > of His Peetharohanam. The
> > > Jagadguru has chosen Brahmachari Kuppa Venkateshwara Prasada Sharma to
> be
> > > His Uttaradhikari -
> > >
> > > Murty garu.......... sishya sweekara has got some sanctity. Is it not?
> > > that is what is reflected in the
> > > above official statement of dakshinamnaya sharada pIta.
> > >
> > > And why can not we leave it at that?
> > >
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