Thread by @AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵#NamamiJagadgurum 008 on the #Jayanthi of Sri Sacchidananda Shivabhinava #Narasimha Bharathi #Mahaswamiji-33rd #Sringeri #Jagadguru

It may be fairly said without fear of contradiction that Sri Jagadguru had gone through every branch of #Sanskrit #Literature and retained

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most of it in his memory. The most knotty points HH would unravel in a marvellously easy way to the intense admiration of his audience. The Sastras were Jagadguru’s playground & would revel in them as often and as much as he could. Besides, the Sastras HH was adept in Kavyas

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and dramas also. It was a very favourite pastime with HH to repeat what are known as Antadi Slokas. More than a dozen Pandits may range together against the Jagadguru and still he would be a match to them all. HH would repeat from memory Slokas by thousands and all his

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opponents may exhaust all their stores but HH would be inexhaustible. #Ramayana was HH’s favourite poem. HH would oftentimes read it and while reading it merge himself in its scenes and laugh or weep as occasion demanded. It was an exceedingly rare privilege and pleasure to

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hear HH read those scenes so excellently portrayed in the Ramayana. Most of the book HH knew by heart and when HH read them the hearer would feel as though transported to the actual scenes and would be carried away by emotions suited to the occasion. HH was a very good poet.

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But all his powers of composition were directed towards praising the gods and invoking their blessings on mankind. When HH entered a shrine HH would involuntarily begin to repeat Slokas. HH cared not for ornate flourishes in his poems. They were the outpourings of an

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exuberant soul. Genuine flow of Bhakti could be traced in each of HH’s poems. HH wrote not for name or fame but would muse on the deity and would quite unexpectedly fall into the poetic vein and repeat Slokas after Slokas the force and pathos of which pierced through the

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hardest heart and brought tears even to eyes that never before wept under the influence of religion. Similarly while teaching his disciples any Sastraic work HH would all of a sudden begin to lecture lucidly and eloquently on the most abstruse points and on several of these

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occasions no notes were taken and thus many purest gems has been lost to the world. HH was intensely earnest in his Bhakti & would pray to God ardently that HH’s shortcomings may be rectified. HH’s method of performing Puja was a sight to see. None could hurry him in Puja.

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HH may have some one hundred idols before him. Each idol must was separately worshipped. Each must have its allotted sandal, Akshata, Kumkuma, and flower. Each must be praised. Each must be meditated upon. Of course Sri Chandramoulisvara and Sri Sarada occupied

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the foremost place in HH’s mind. They stood apart and HH was never satisfied with doing Puja to them. HH may not on some days do any outward puja to them, but inwardly they never left his mind. HH used to converse with them freely and even quarrel with them at times

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as though they were his playmates. HH would never think of them as images but would feel their living presence. Sri TK Balasubrahmanyam

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