Thread by @hormndoc

One day an old man approached Sri Sri Chandrashekara Bharathi. He enquired from the visitor which village from which he had come and learning that he said you are lucky to have been born in the village of the ganapATi who correct Sri vidyAraNya. (the name of the village and the

are lost) Why would the AcArya remember a ganapAti from an obscure village? And he corrected vidyAraNya? When asked SSCB replied: It is well known that Sri vidyAranya was an expert in the vedAs and SastrAs. Even then when he wrote a book, before he released it for propogation he

he would call mahAvidwans to review them. Only after their approval he would allow the books to be released. He wrote a treatise on the sri rudra and read it out to the experts assembled. His explanation for harikeSAya namah: was hari + ka + eeSa hari - viSNu ka - brahma and eeSa

- Siva. He split the name had expanded it thus - when associated with sattva rajas and tama (guNas) the parabrahma swaroopa becomes brahma viSNu and Siva. When he was reading this - the ganapAti stood up and said: Are the vedAs your personal property to interpret it as you wish?

VidyArNya : What have I done to the vedAs to receive such condemnation?
GanapAti: What is your adikAra to split harikeSa in the manner that you have done. It is well known to you that the the veda pAtAs have been through generations been carefully preserved through by enshrining

them in through padha, krama, jaTa and ghana. In the established padha vibhaga isnt harikeSa is split as hari + keSa and not as you have done in to hari, ka and eeSa?
Having heard this vidyArAnya realized his mistake and corrected the treatise to conform to the sampradAya padha

Instead of prostrations to the he who is the manifestation of brahma viSNu and Siva he corrected it to the prostrations to he who has the blue sky for his hair. This may not be as attractive or deeper in interpretation as the old one. It was important that primacy be given to the

padhavibAga that has been preserved over time. SSCB concluded - this ghanapATi could (bravely) question even that mahAn

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(pic in this tweet - sri sri vruddha nrusimha bharathi whose 142nd aaradhana was yesterday