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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Yamunacharya

His corpse had curled three fingers and when Ramanuja saw these, he understood the tasks and promised to finish them whereupon the fingers straightened.

The names of Parasara and Veda Vyasa, should be commemorated on the earth by giving it to a person worthy to bear it.
Compose a commentary on Tiruvaymozhi of Nammalvar the most prolific of Alvars.
Compose a commentary on Upanishads, Vedanta Sutras and Bhagavad Gita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamunacharya

Press
https://kmkvaradhan.wordpress.com/tag/sri-yamuna/

Dham
http://www.holydham.com/category/srirangam/temples-around-srirangam/

Blog
http://srimannarayana108.blogspot.in/2014/08/alavandar-yamunacharya.html

History
http://gaudiyahistory.iskcondesiretree.com/yamunacharya/

Chathu
http://stotrarathna.blogspot.in/2016/01/alavandhars-chathu-sloki.html

Tube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yamunacharya

Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Yamunacharya

Monday, December 12, 2016

1. Always practice Love towards Brotherhood, Compassion, and Honesty.
2. Live with the realization that Srimad Bhagawad Ramanujacharya's sacred feet lead you to the only right way (Prapathi)
3. Never hurt others either physically, or by deeds, or by thoughts.
4. Stay away from those who wish or do you evil – better still, if possible, do them good.
5. Live with the realization that Sriman Narayana is the Supreme-Most
6. Feed God's people
7. Patience is a virtue, always practice it.
8. Be Humble always. Do not consider yourself superior in any way be it by birth, or material wealth, or education.
9. Do what your fore-fathers would do. Always stay away from what they would never do.
10. Always meditate upon God's Supreme-Most qualities and always be involved in them.

http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Kooram
http://wikimapia.org/339720/Sri-Koorathazhwan-Sannidhi-Koil-Temple
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kooram
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koorathazhwan
http://www.kuresan.com/

Sevilimedu

Sripad Ramanuja carrying water from Sevilimedu to Lord Varadaraja Perumal Temple in Kanchipuram from at Sevilimedu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevilimedu

Well from which Sripad Ramanuja offered water to Lord Varadaraja Perumal
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Sevilimedu

Spread In India / World by

South India
http://munitrayam.org/intro.htm

North India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Ramanand
World Wide Prominence Through Disciple
http://kabirinformation.blogspot.com/

West India
http://ramappearance.blogspot.com/
World Wide Prominence Through Disciple
http://swaminara.blogspot.com/

Ramanuja / Site / Articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanuja
http://ramanuja.wikifoundry.com/
http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Sri_Ramanuja_Acharya

ORG

http://www.ramanuja.org/

http://www.saranagathi.org/acharyas/ramanuja/

http://www.kaarimaaran.com/

Friday, December 9, 2016

Yadava Prakasa

(svabhaviko bhedabheda-vada or simultaneous difference-nondifference)

Yadava adopts Brahma-parinama-vada , or the theory of the transformation of Brahman. He holds that Brahman is really changed into cit (spirit), acit (matter), and Isvara (God). If Isvara is brought under cit, both conscious and unconscious forms are only different states of one substance and not different substances themselves. It is called the doctrine of simultaneous difference and non-difference. While Brahman undergoes changes, it does not forfeit its purity. Yadava does not see a contradiction in saying that a thing can be different and at the same time non-different from itself. He says that all things always present themselves under these two different aspects. They present non-difference so far as their causal substance (karana) and the class characters (jati) are concerned; they present difference so far as their effected condition (karya) and individual characteristics (vyakti) are concerned. Brahman and the world are thus both different and non-different. While Bhaskara believes that Brahman undergoes in a way the experiences of the finite souls, Yadava contends that Brahman remains in its pristine exalted condition. If we believe that the three, God, soul and matter are ultimate realities and not transformations of Brahman, we are in a realm of misconception. For removing false knowledge, both karma and jnana are considered useful. Brahman alone is real, and all else is produced from Brahman. For Yadava, distinctions are as real as the identity, while for Bhaskara the distinctions are due to upadhis (limitations), which are real, while the identity is the ultimate truth. Ramanuja objects to Yadava's concept of Isvara as a modification of Brahman on the ground that there is none beyond Isvara.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yadava+Prakasa

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Ghost

The king of Kancipuram called for Yadava Prakasa as His daughter was possessed by a brahma-raksasa, a brahmana ghost. Yadava Prakasa was called as an exorcist, and when he arrived with his disciples, he was brought before the king's daughter and asked to relieve her of the influence of the ghost. Speaking through the girl's mouth, the ghost insulted Yadava Prakasa and laughed at him. Ramanuja was asked to try, and when he came before the girl, the brahmana ghost said, “If Ramanuja blesses me with the dust of his lotus feet, I shall leave this girl.” Ramanuja did so upon which the girl was cured, and the king was deeply indebted to him.
jain king of karnataka’s daughter was possessed by a Brahmarakshashi. When 1000 Jain priests could not remove the ghost, Ramanuja said that he can. Ramanuja put a mantra and hit on the head of the daughter and immediately the ghost left her. Then all the Jain Priests had to convert to Sri Vaishnavism. They still protested. They challenged Ramanuja with 1000 questions and asked him to answer all the 1000 questions in one answer covering all questions. Ramanuja took his adishesha form with 1000 heads and answered all questions. Inquisitive Jain Priests then pulled out the cloth towel which was screening Ramanujacharya and when they saw the snake many of them died, and the of the rest of them many of them suffered shock and the remaining converted to SriVaishnavism.