A PROVEN METHOD TO UNDERSTAND PURANA & ITIHASA Recently a heated debate raged over a Telugu piece on Sitadevi. The person who wrote that is a Xtian missionary & a known Hindu hater. I didn’t read that piece but read the snippets posted on the Facebook updates by a few friends. Such attempts are not…
BERTRAND RUSSEL ON BOLSHEVISM [COMMUNISM] & MOHAMMEDANISM Bertrand Russel wrote “Bolshevism [Communism] is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism.” He also said that “Both are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world.” [B. Russel, Theory & Practice of Bolshevism, 1921]. What Russel wrote in 1921 has become true in India. From 60’s which…
SRI VYASATIRTHA’S ASSOCIATION WITH TIRUMALA TEMPLE – A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE Sometime ago, on Facebook, one of my friends wrote a post expressing skepticism over the fact that Shri Vyasarajaru did puja at the Tirumalai kshetra. He pointed out anachronism when the period of Vyasarajaru is compared with that of the ruler who is believed to…
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR From more than a century, even among the schools of Vedanta, there is a notion held with some conviction that the philosophy of Sri Madhvacharya carries influence of Christianity. Well informed people such as professors, historians and researchers albeit quietly carry this feeling. This misconception has been rebutted by Madhva…
HAMPI VITTHALA – REVIEW OF N. VENKATARAMANAYYA’S ARTICLE REVIEW OF N. VENKATARAMANAYYA’S ARTICLE N. Venkataramanayya (NV) presents a curious conclusion that the murti (icon) of Hampi Vitthala came from Tirupati and not from Pandharapur as believed. He cites a particular samkirtana of Annamayya as the evidence for his conclusion. But there are certain issues to accept his conclusion as…
Sumadhwa Vijaya – Historical Exploration Part 2 ——— READ PART – 1 HERE ——— To summarise, the period of the last two decades of Madhva (1298 – 1318 AD) followed by the periods of Padmanabha Tirtha (1318 – 1324 AD) and Narahari Tirtha (1324 – 1333 AD) saw some of the worst destruction of organized…
Tombs of Krishnadevaraya and Timmarasa – The Facts & Myths There are many videos floating on social media, particularly in Youtube, that claim to be telling secrets of the ‘graves of Krishnadevaraya and Timmarasa.’ But are these claims true? Recently, I have uploaded a podcast on Anveshi Channel. It was a Telugu…
INTRODUCTION Sri Brahmanya Tirtha is a lesser known stalwart from Dvaita school of Vedanta which has more than 800 years of recorded history. Sri Brahmanya Tirtha’s first unique identity is that he was the Ashrama Guru of the much celebrated Madhva Guru, Sri Vyasatirtha. It is well known that Sri Vyasatirtha lived during the heydays…
Recently, an audio clip that contained a legend associated with a popular polemical work titled Advaita Siddhi written by Madhusudana Saraswati from Sankara’s Advaita School gone viral. This Advaita Siddhi is a rebuttal of Vyasatirtha’s Nyanamruta. Here is a translation (not verbatim but the essence of the speech). “Madhusudana Saraswati was an erudite Advaita scholar. He wrote ‘Advaita Siddhi’…
BHARATA TATPARYA NIRNAYA – ACHARYA MADHVA’S UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION On the sacred occasion of Madhva Navami, here is a brief introduction to an invaluable contribution of Acharya Madhva made to firm up the very foundation of Sanatana Dharma in the age of Kali. And that contribution’s name is “Sriman Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya.” BACKGROUND: As was done by…
