It was originally recorded in 1977 by American singer and. ![]() Perhaps two of the greatest mystics of India belong to the Tamil region. Regarding his time there is not enough evidence. It has to be some period of time between the middle of the sixteenth century and the middle of the eighteenth century. The reasons are as follows. The 5. 7th pontiff of the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, namely Sri Paramasivendra Saraswathi (1. This Adhvari acknowledges Sadasiva- brahmendra as his guru. A junior contemporary of Sri Paramasivendra saraswathi was Nilakanta- Dikshidar, grandson of the brother of the famous Advaita scholar- devotee Appayya Dikshidar (1. Appayya Dikshidar was a great scholar- teacher of advaita vedanta, hailing from Tamilnadu. He was the guiding spirit of a movement in which he organized the services of a large band of volunteers who could disseminate among the masses the philosophy of advaita and the worship of Lord Siva. Having mastered, at a very early age, all the knowledge available at the time in philosophy, rhetoric and literature, he wrote about a hundred works, of which only 6. His poetical talent is transparent in all these works. He is said to have travelled widely, entering into philsophical disputations and controversies in many centres of learning, including Varanasi. He was so firm in his belief in advaita that he had no qualms in using his talent to the elucidation of other schools of thought like those of Vedanta- desikacharya of whom he was an admirer. His was a mighty intellect and he led a life of karma, bhakti and jnana, setting a model for posterity to follow. Roger Federer finished off a clean Wimbledon with a straight-sets victory over Marin Cilic in today’s men’s Final, winning 6-3, 6-1, 6-4.Join the World's Greatest Book Email List! Receive "Straight Talk" articles and videos about writing, publishing, and book design. Learn what it takes to publish a. The Testing of Abraham. What follows is a list of two hundred of my favorite adventure novels published before the Eighties (1984–93). They’re organized not qualitatively — that would. Here is part of a story: And the Lord said to Moses, “I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, Quotes for a Better World - DoOneThing.org - Do One Thing and Better World Kids Clubs are projects of The EMILY Fund. Featuring more than 5000 FREE printable. This Nilakanta, the grandson of Appayya Dikshidar, was the chief minister of King Tirumalai- Nayak of Madurai. Nilakantha had a pupil Ramabhadra who had a pupil by name Venkatesa Dikshidar who later came to be known by the name Ayyaval of Tiruvisanallur. This Ayyaval and Sadasiva Brahmendra had been schoolmates. This much is known. On the other side we know that Sadasiva Brahmendra met the Tamil scholar- poet- devotee- philosopher Tayumanavar (1. Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman (Rajah of Pudukkottai) (1. These are the major factors for scholars coming to the almost unbelievable conclusion that Sadasiva perhaps lived for nearly 2. But if we know what kind of mystic and knower of brahman he was, we tend to feel that the improbable could have been possible. The Upanishadic maxim: brahmavid brahmaiva bhavati ( meaning, the knower of brahman is brahman), really applies to Sadasiva Brahmendra. It is only in mythology we come across such a brahma- vit - examples are: boy- sage Suka, and Sage ja. Da- bharata - but in our own historical world, such examples are rarest of the rare. Sadasiva Brahmendra is one such. Growing up in a village on the banks of the Cauvery in Tamilnadu, Sadasiva was a most gifted student, much given to arguing and debating. After an early marriage and a spark of revelation on the day of his wife. One day he was taunted by his guru for his talkativeness. On that day he took a vow of silence and he kept it up for the rest of his life which he spent as a wandering naked (avadh. Uta) sannyasi. The songs he composed during the period of his discipleship are still very popular. In his wanderings, of which we have no complete record, he is said to have performed many miracles which were just an overflowing of the compassion he had for all humanity. He was one of the greatest of siddhas. His mind was always immersed in the Absolute brahman. His name is part of the folk- lore in all of South India. His major work is brahma- s. Utra- v. Rtti, which is a scholarly but lucid commentary on the brahma- s. Utras. His Atma- vidy. A- vil. Asam is a composition in 6. The verses describe how a knower of brahmanwould behave and as far as the folklore and all the stories about Sadasiva- brahmendra go, the description fits him most suitably. He may be rightly called the Saintly Perfection of the Impersonal absolute. Fully engrossed in the enjoyment of his own bliss, he remains in another world as it were; and as strikes his fancy, here he is engaged in thought, there he is singing and there he is dancing. He remains steadfast in the incomparable region of bliss, immovable like a log of wood. Embracing the Lady Equanimity and having been overpowered by Bliss he sleeps with his head for a pillow, with nothing for cover and with the bare ground for a bedding. Knowing that everything is the result of Ignorance, he remains unattached. He does not even care who is in front of him, for He is the One Perfect Bliss in everything. So it is very difficult to get any historical help from stories about him. He was such a mystic that any story could have fitted him. To sift fact from fancy is utterly impossible. However a few miracle- stories that have been catalogued by no less a person than the famous Sankaracharya of Sringeri himself may be cited, because we may trust the yogic capabilities of the Swami who must have had his own reasons to list them in the only written biography, composed by him, that we have of Sadasiva Brahmendra. Believe them or not, here are the stories. On the river banks of the Cauvery in Mahadanapuram in Tiruchy District he was seen by a few kids. They requested him to take them to the religious fairs in Madurai, that time being the solar month of Leo when the Madurai temple has usually an annual festival. The sage perhaps felt an overflow of compassion for them. He asked them to close their eyes and in no time they were in Madurai (more than 1. Lord and the Goddess there, they feasted at the festivities and in due time before it was night they were back in Mahadanapuram on the same banks of the Cauvery. The parents of the children would not believe the stories but their graphic description of the Madurai festivities right to the last detail baffled them. They ran to the Cauvery banks to look for the sage but he was not there. On the river bed of Kodumudi river Sadasiva Brahmendra was sitting in trance on the sands. Suddenly water flowed down the river in a flood and the river was flooded for the next few months. Spectators saw water submerge him as he was still sitting in his trance. He was given up as drowned. But three months later when the floods subsided he was still there in the same trance posture; he just rose up and walked away. It was harvest season. He was seen . The warnings given to him to avoid the haystacks went unheeded. One of the men around raised his hatchet to hit him. The sage was walking along as if nothing had happened. The rest of the spectators ran to him and pleaded that he save the man who had raised his hand to hit him. The sage looked back and the hand came down. The sage walked away. Long after all these happened when almost people had forgotten the memories of his wandering in their lands, once the naked sannyasi was seen walking right through a muslim harem of a Nawab. As a brahma- jnani who sees nothing but brahman everywhere, he would not distinguish between the different human figures which cross his path nor would he be distracted by the sights or noises that his environment may present to him. It was in this state of trance that he was walking along. He, the naked sannyasi, walked straight into the harem, entering it at one end and walking out at the other all the while walking through a maze of inmates of the Nawab. The news reached the nawab, he had his men chase him, they cut off both his hands as he was walking along, the hands fell off and . The nawab got scared, picked up the hands that had been severed, ran to the Sage and offered them in total remorse. The sage stopped his walking, the severed hands were restored to their place, the hands became normal and the sage walked away! There was no conversation. It was Venkatesa Ayyava. L, his classmate of old times, that broke his silence, maybe once or twice. During his discipleship days Sadasiva used to sing bhajans in a sweet voice. Ayyava. L reminded him of those good old days and implored him to sing again for the benefit of the people who would certainly enjoy listening to his songs. Then came some wonderful songs, all of them having the theme of . Sadasiva- brahmendra. His songs : m. Anasa samcara re , brahma. Ni m. Anasac samcara re . Appayya Dikshidar wrote siddh. Anta- le. Sa- sangraha, which is the first reading for all students of advaita from his time It contains all the different dialectic thinking under one presentation in prose. But it is however a very elaborate book. Sadasiva Brahmendra epitomised this book in verse form in 2. Anta- kalpa- valli. This again became a little too much for readers. In the 2. 0th century, Vasudeva brahmendra (who attained siddhi in 1. A. D. Incidentally it is this Vasudeva- Brahmendra who was the guru of R. Visvanatha Sastri (1. Humble prostrations to the Guru- parampar. A. Krishnamurthy. Movies - Salon. com.
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