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CHAPTER THREE: SANNYASA

CHAPTER THREE: SANNYASA

By Naimisaranya Dasa19 min read

About six months before Yamunacarya’s disappearance, Ramanuja’s mother, Kantimati, had left this world. Now, Raksakambal, the wife of Ramanuja, was the mistress of the house. She was as beautiful as an apsara, devoted to her husband, and very strict in her cleanliness and observance of ritual. Unfortunately, she had been unable to imbibe her husband’s pure love of God and was more attached to the external features of religious ritual. She was unhappy to see…

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CHAPTER SIX: INSTRUCTIONS TO DISCIPLES

CHAPTER SIX: INSTRUCTIONS TO DISCIPLES

By Naimisaranya Dasa20 min read

Kuresa was one of Ramanuja’s most intimate disciples, always absorbed in thought of how he could assist his guru in his preaching work. He came from a wealthy brahmana family of Kuragrahara, a small village near Kancipuram. As he was in fact the landowner of the whole area around the village of Kura, he came to be known as Kuresa, the master of Kura. He married a very qualified girl named Andal, and together they…

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