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INTRO: RAMANUJA’S PHILOSOPHY OF VISISTADVAITA

INTRO: RAMANUJA’S PHILOSOPHY OF VISISTADVAITA

By Naimisaranya Dasa14 min read

PREFACE Great saints and devotees of the Lord give purpose to this material world and its history by their presence; their absence renders this world useless and its history a chronological record of nonsense. By providing another glimpse into the ways that pure devotees transform the lives of materialistic people and alter the course of history, Naimisaranya Prabhu has done great service to all English readers, especially Vaisnavas and aspiring Vaisnavas. Without such information, people…

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CHAPTER ONE: YAMUNACARYA

CHAPTER ONE: YAMUNACARYA

By Naimisaranya Dasa20 min read

In the south of India, many great devotees have appeared to spread the glories of the Lord. Of all these devotees, perhaps the most famous is Sri Ramanujacarya, whose life is the subject of this book. However, just before Ramanuja, there lived another great Vaisnava whose life and teachings had a tremendous influence on Ramanuja, although in fact, the two of them never met. This was Sri Yamunacarya, also known as Alabandara – “The Conqueror.”…

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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 FOUR: ACARYA AT SRI RANGAM

CHAPTER FOUR: ACARYA AT SRI RANGAM

By Naimisaranya Dasa38 min read

While all these events were taking place in Kancipuram, the devotees in Sri Rangam were still feeling the lack of an acarya to guide them. The ardent desire of all of them was that Ramanujacarya come there and be their preceptor. Mahapurna had stayed for some time in Kanci with the intention of bringing Ramanuja to Sri Rangam, but, because he had left so abruptly, he was unable to do so. When the news reached…

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