Chandrasekharendra saraswati died
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Chandrashekharendra Saraswati VIII
68th Peethadishwar of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham
Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Shankaracharya Mahaswamigal (born in a Kannada Smartha family as Swaminathan Shasthri; 20 May 1894 – 8 January 1994) also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyavar (meaning, "The great elder") was the 68th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Moolamnaya Saravjna Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham. Mahaperiyavar's discourses have been recorded in a Tamil book titled "Deivathin Kural" (Voice of God).
Early life
Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Mahaswamigal (born Swaminathan Shasthri) was born on 20 May 1894. He was brought up in the central part of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Villupuram, South Arcot District. Kannada Smartha Brahmin Rig Vedic family that had migrated to Tamil Nadu generations earlier. Subrahmanya Sastri worked as a teacher having entered the educational service. His mother Mahalakshmi was also from a Kannada Brahmin family from the village of Eachangudi near Tiruvaiyaru. Swaminathan was the second child of his par
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The Sage of Kanchi
R. Venkataraman
(Former President of India)
Half way through the Satabdi Celebrations, the Mahaswami Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham chose to leave his mortal coil. I use the word chose deliberately as the Mahaswami has become a Jivan Muktha, one who had attained salvation even during his life time.
Adi Sankara in his Bhaja Govindam said "From association with the pure and the good, comes non-attachment (Renunciation);
From non-attachment comes non-delusion;
From non-delusion comes stillness of mind (Peace);
When there is peace of mind;
There is realisation of the ultimate
Reality even during life time.
While the positive effect of non-attachment to material life and pleasures have been brought out in Bhaja Govindam, the negative results of attachment is described in the Bhagavat Gita.
The Lord Krishna says,
Brooding over material objects;
Man develops attachment to them;
Attachment breeds desire;
From desire springs anger;
Anger begets delusion, confused mind
Delusion drives out reason
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H. H. Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
H.H. SRI CHANDRASEKHARENDRA SARASWATI
His Contribution to Hinduism
Dr. (Miss) S.S. JANAKI
H.H. SRI CHANDRASEKHARENDRA Saraswati Svamigal of Kanchi Kamakoti Pitha is undoubtedly the foremost and the most dynamic among the Acharyas of Sankara lineage and one of the most powerful personalities of the present times. It is indeed our privilege and fortune to be living during the times of this epochmaking saint-scholar. Writing about him in 1963. Dr. Albert B. Franklin, the then Consul-General of the United States of America at Madras, said, “His Holiness is every man, and he is as old as man’s ponderings. He is the man of faith, who has given away that he had and follows only his faith. He is a symbol of that renunciation which is at the heart of all religions.”
It is no wonder that the lowliest of the lowly, the highest among the high, the clever and the dull, the gentleman or the ruffian, the learned or the ignorant as well flock to have a glimpse of the Sage, whatever their purpose may be. And everyone who gets that yearned glimpse
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