@Tezz @TheDestroyer I just came back from Baahubali 2. It was fantastic! Even better than the first one.
@TheDestroyer By the way, I didn't like the songs in this one. Like I didn't like the song about Krishna and I didn't like the "Jai Sa, Rudra Sa" chant. But I liked the Shiva Tandava Stotram at the end. But the story was great, better than the first one. The only part of the movie I didn't like is the comedy part in the beginning. The comedy part lasted too long.
@KeshavSrinivasan 'Missiles', 'Telescopes', 'Dharma themselves fight'.... Guess these 3 things in the movie... haha
@KeshavSrinivasan what I think is one should watch Bahubali 2 first and in the last 30 minutes he should stop watching Bahubali 2 and should watch Bahubali 1 and then again start rest part of Bahubali 2... movie completes then... haha...
@Tezz I asked to edit your question because you were saying "Are there interpretations by someone"? The person who casted a vote might think it would attract opinion based answers.
@Pandya He was Ramanujacharya's guru. Ramanujacharya went to Sri Rangam to become a shishya of Yamunacharya. But when he arrived in Sri Rangam, Yamunacharya had just passed away. So instead Ramanujacharya became a shishya of five disciples of Yamunacharya.
@Pandya They each taught him different aspects of Sri Vaishnavism, like one taught him about the Ashtakshari mantra, one taught him about the Dvaya mantra, one taught him about the Charama Shloka, one taught him about the Alwars' poems, and one taught him about the Ramayana.
@Pandya Out of all of them Ramanujacharya's main guru was Yamunacharya's shishya Periya Nambi. He's the one that did the Samashrayanam ritual (the initiation ritual for Pancharatra) for Ramanujacharya.
@Pandya Periya Nambi's Sanskrit name is Mahapurna, by the way.
@Pandya Oh, and Periya Nambi had his eyes plucked out by the Chola king.
@Pandya By the way, when Ramanujacharya arrived in Sri Rangam, Yamunacharya's body was holding up three fingers, denoting the three things that Yamunacharya wanted to do in his life but didn't get a chance to do. The three things were 1. Write a Sri Vaishnava commentary on the Brahma Sutras 2. Write a Sri Vaishnava commentar on Nammalwar's Thiruvaimozhi 3. Name someone after Vyasa's father Parashara, the author of the Vishnu Purana, which was Yamunacharya's favorite Purana.
@Pandya Ramanujacharya fulfilled the first one by writing the Sri Bhashya. He fulfilled the second one by having his shishya Thirukurugai Piran Pillan write a 6000 verse commentary on the Thiruvaimozhi. And he fulfilled the third one by having his shishya Kurathalwan name his son Parashara Bhattar, who ultimately became the head of the Sri Vaishnava sect after the time of Ramanujacharya.
@Pandya Thirukurugai Piran Pillan, by the way, was the son of Ramanujacharya's maternal uncle Thirumalai Nambi. Thirumalai Nambi was one of Yamunacharya's shishyas, and he's the one who taught Ramanujacharya about the Ramayana.
@Pandya By the way, Ramanujacharya wasn't actually against the caste system, but the reason why he's often associated with "equality" is that Sri Vaishnavas emphasize the path of Sharanagati, and unlike Bhakti Yoga, Sharanagati has no caste restrictions.
The term "Shaivite" is overused nowadays. For instance, Iyer Brahmins are often called Shaivites, but they're actually followers of Adi Shankaracharya's Smartha sect (which I discuss here and here), and simply adopt Shiva as their Ishta Devata. True philosophical Shaivism is relatively rare nowad...
@SwiftPushkar It means "Let us praise & surrender to the Exalted Feet of Azhwar (meaning all the Azhwars), EmperumAnar (which is a title given by Thirukoshtiyur Nambi to Bhagavad RamanujAcharya) and Vedanta Desikar (referred to as Desikar)"
@SwiftPushkar Like @SreeCharan says, Desikar means Guru or Acharya and Sri Vedanta Desikar is referred to simply as Desikar in the same way that SriRanganatha Perumaal is referred to as Perumaal or SriRanganatha's Kovil in SriRangam as just Kovil. It is a sign of respect asserting reverence by not necessitating an additional adage when referring to them respectively.
He who has the five hands and the elephant's face, Whose tusk is even as the crescent moon, The son of Nandi, the Flower of Wisdom, Him I cherish in thought, His feet adore.
Shaiva Siddhanta is based on the Shaiva Agamas and the poems of the 63 Nāyanārs . One of those 63 Nāyanārs is Saint Tirumūlar and also one of the 18 Siddhars and also a Yogi himself. His work Tirumantiram is the tenth of the twelve volumes of the Tirumurai, the key texts of Shaiva Siddhanta. He i...
@TheDestroyer @SreeCharan @KeshavSrinivasan - What to do abt. aby's question , he has edited and made it clear that he wants the quote which says this is the reason women are not allowed in temples.It seems this is diff. question.Shall we retract close votes?
I came across a story in which once Brihaspati left Indra and due to that Indra appointed another Brahmin for a Yagna and since he was half Asur (born from Asur mother, therefore, he made Yagna Aahuti in favour of Asuras. When Indra came to know of this he killed him and but then Indra got the s...
Recently, I've seen Hare Krishna people with their mantra on the emblem and I've found it may be a quite interesting to code golf it.
The challenge
Write the Hare Krishna mantra, i.e.:
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
Winning criteri...