Thread by @AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵#NamamiJagadgurum Series 005

(From 1981 When Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji was Sannidhanam): The past history of the Sringeri Math proves that its Pontiffs are chosen by the will of the Divine Mother and that this pre-ordainment is no accident. Otherwise, why

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should a boy in his teens go all the way and all alone, from Andhra Pradesh to Ujjain and stay with His Holiness from then on, without a day's break as student and disciple, for twelve years with no thought other than to study the sastras?

At a meeting in Calcutta he said

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with characteristic humility "when I joined His Holiness, I had no thought in mind except to learn the sastras according to ancient Hindu tradition and leave the future to itself. But by the Grace of the Goddess I have been entrusted with great responsibility". And how

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admirably he has fulfilled his mission and continues to grow day by day in spiritual stature is by now too well known to all the disciples of the Math and to the discerning public over the whole of India Always accessible, ever calm and collected and rarely ruffled but

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stringent in his principles and unwavering In his austerity, polished and poised in his speech, truly formidable in oratory and dialectic discussion, conservative to the core, painfully anxious that the pristine tradition of Sanskrit culture should be preserved at all

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costs, a teacher whose fame is already spreading - how can all these great and good qualities be combined in the one person and such a one chosen as the next Pontiff of the Sharada Peeta except by the Imperative of the Divine will? courtesy ahambrahmaasmi.org

Some of

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us who once wondered how a worthy successor to our Mahasannidanam could ever be found in this modern world are now restfully satisfied and happy that such a person has been found in our beloved and respected Sannidhanam".

(by Sri S. Y. Krishnaswamy in Golden Jubilee

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address delivered by him at Madras on the occasion of the 50th year of assumption of Sanyasa Ashrama of Maha Sannidanam)

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Note that the exact same words can be said about our present Sannidhanam, #Jagadguru #Shankaracharya #SriSri Vidhushekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji too without the need to alter a single letter 🙏

#SanatanaDharma #Sringeri #Guru #guruparampara #Vedanta #spirituality #incredibleindia