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Book Review
TAMIL
Spiritual biography
V. N. VEDANTA DESIKAN
SRI RAMANUJAR VAAZHKKAI VARALAARUM PERUMAIKALUM: Latha Ramanujam; Vanitha Pathippagam, 11, Nana Street, Pondy Bazaar, T. Nagar, Chennai-600017. Rs. 80.
SRI RAMANUJA is acknowledged as the founder of South Indian Vaishnavism with its basis being Visishtadvaita, popularly denoted by the term qualified monism.
He wrote nine works, all in Sanskrit, for interpreting the Brahmasutras, Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita but he is best known for his extreme humaneness and his passion for paving the way for the salvation of the less learned and the less privileged. He was a multifaceted leader of society. It was he who did the maximum to systematise the temple practices in great shrines, like Srirangam.
The present book is an inspired, as well as inspiring, booklet, almost a source-book on important dates in his life, his tours, his masters, and his host of disciples.
It is full of quotations, reading which one would be greatly enthused about his life and work. The hagiology is authentic and there is no chance of apocryphal statements.
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