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Book Review
TAMIL
Theological treatise
NEDUNTHERU S. KANNAN
SRI VAISHNAVAM: V. V. Ramanujan; Sri Rangapriya Pathippagam, 68, T.P. Koil Street, Triplicane, Chennai-60005. Rs. 170.
THIS BOOK is a lucid and well-written account of the essentials of Srivaishnava theology including those propounded by Pillailokacharya (1264-1327) representing what is generally known as the southern school, and covers in depth the sum and substance of his manuals written mostly in arcane Sanskritised Tamil aphorisms. The determination of the mutual relationship of the Lord, Sri and the soul, the interceding role of Sri, the concept of surrender, the operation of divine grace unconditioned by human endeavour are some of the salient features that have been brought out by the author with clarity.
On some of these aspects, Lokacharya’s contemporary Vedanta Desika (1268-1369) has taken doctrinally different stands but this book confines itself to the presentation of Lokacharya’s works in an intelligible style and language with balance and objectivity. The treatise is indeed a passport for the beginner to get introduced and inducted into Vaishnava theology and is bound to motivate him into a closer and critical study of the subject.
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