[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Chakilam Venkatesh - Controversy???

[Swagata Chowdhury]

Aham Brahmasmi organisation has already stated that it cannot regulate
anyone’s personal opinions. Chiklam is neither a scholar of the Śṛṅgerī
Śāradā Pīṭham nor of any of its branch maṭhas. Therefore, whatever he says
need not be given much importance. If he says something good, it may be
accepted; if he says something improper, we shall simply not accept it.

swagata

On Mon, 17 Nov 2025, 4:49 pm Sangeerth P via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> >
> > https://youtu.be/svZ0M70VufM?si=2OzdpJtJndQ67uq6
> >
>
> I seriously request some of the group members who are there or who know
> Chakillam Venkatesh to stop the videos. Literally the videos are not upto
> the mark. I don't know if anyone with this much daadi and mustache, only
> without shika, can do some shastrarth like him? It's an apamana to
> shastrarth first of all. If he wants to refute Ramanuja his pakshas has to
> be very strong. The above is another video where the speaker says all the
> claims of Chakillam are completely untrue.
>
>  I feel that the Neo vedanta advaita school in the name of giving upanishad
> knowledge to every Tom, Dick and Harry have ended up creating such
> inefficient scholars who dont have any knowledge on how to do shastrarth (I
> am not demeaning anyone here. But this above video is another such
> instance. Another place someone from Neo vedanta school says that Shankara
> was the first one to write Gita bhashya. Without him the world would have
> lost Bhagavad Gita. The comedy is that they themselves have not gone
> through the upothgatha of Shankara bhashya where he himself states he is
> writing bashya to clarify the doubts which have come because of previous
> commentaries.) It's literally a shame to endorse such activity where the
> claims are completely untrue. I request the community members if you are a
> true Advaitin, atleast stop endorsing these kinds of false claims from your
> own community.
>
>
> Try to contact Chakkilam and ask him to stop these awful businesses. This
> is literally backfiring at the Advaita community only. He can tell points
> which are valid, but telling false claims like Ramanuja is the only person
> who tells about Vaikunta is a literally flawed argument. Any sampradaya
> post ramanuja agrees to mukti by going to that particular loka. To name a
> few Nimbarka, Vallabha, Madhwa, Ramananda, Gaudiya (whatever loka let it
> be. we can discuss that later) all agree to reaching a particular loka
> only. So do you mean to say all made the same mistake of Ramanuja? It's the
> Shankaran school of philosophy which only tells mukti here and now. And I
> feel the later texts of Shaankarans like Bellamkonda Ramaraya's Vedanta
> Sangraha, Panchadashi also agree to going to the lokas as mukti (Krama
> mukti). Maha periava in his Advaita Siddhi (Voice of God-Vol-6) books
> mentions this can be considered as mukti for gruhastas and other people who
> cannot take up sanyasa immediately. So now Chakkilam has come to post
> videos just reading one or two books and this is ridiculous. Even in his
> community this krama mukti is agreed by post-Shaankaran scholars at
> least as far as I know. He is himself contradicting his own philosophy
> without understanding it.
>
> In the Sri Vaishnava community, Vedantacharya name is given only for Swami
> Desikan. Not even Ramanujacharya has that name. How can such names of the
> great legends like Swami Desikan be given to such mean and comedy pieces
> like Chakillam who don't even have proper shika and anushtana. Nowadays
> youtube has become a platform for every person to talk whatever he wants
> and ends up giving courage to people like Chakillam to tell something ill
> about other traditions without even knowing. I kindly request any of the
> group members at least to tell them that these activities are not good.
> Sitting somewhere in America and doing shastrarth will not be even
> encouraged by people like Kanchi paramacharya.  He failed to do his
> kartavya of coming back to India first and do some service to lord here and
> sitting in Ohio and doing shastrarth he thinks he is saving the tradition.
> It's so ridiculous. Many temples don't even have proper food for the lord.
> Whatever Chakkilam is doing is literally an unwanted act and is irrelevant
> to the current situation of on his own taking up Ramanuja text and not
> having properly understood what it is blabbering something in youtube.
> Vishvas ji may be right or wrong in his views but he was not the first one
> to start these activities. He is just giving a reply to save his tradition.
> Similarly, what are the efforts taken by Chakilam to save his community? Is
> sitting outside India and throwing garbage at other philosophies considered
> saving one's tradition. I hope there are big, big scholars in this group. I
> am just 26 years of age. If I can understand and tell this much I hope
> people elder to me will surely understand the need of the hour and advise
> Chakilam not to proceed with these activities and there are a lot of other
> ways by which he can do rakshana of Advaita philosophy.
>
>
> Regards
> Sangeerth
> 8608658009
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