Sankaracarya of the North

[Bijoy Misra]

Still don't get it.  are we saying that the succession of
sankaacharya gets complicated with various people trying
to get on the wagon?

regarding law and religion it's interesting that the courts
even hear it.  Through a personal experience in a local situation
i came to know that the local courts (Boston) would even not admit
a case that has religion it, unless it's criminal.
I think the defeated party in the court case will tell
how much bribe transferred hands.

In any case, I had observed many years ago when the Sankaracharya
of Puri was installed. From all operations it sounded noble
and his scholarship seemed amazingly dense.  Then he published
the book Vedic Mathematics, which became rather controversial..


On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, F. Smith wrote:

> Bijoy Misra writes:
> a) the succession of Sankaracharyas is a political affair
>
> b) India judicial system is corrupt
>
> c) some shaven head people have more ego than humility
>
> what is the research?
>
> I'm just reporting, I'm not someone with a vested interest. But I might
> have been unclear in my posting last night. As for Bijoy's (a): I'm not
> sure "political" is the right word. Of the two claimants, one was
> employing an old Skt text as the lynchpin of his arguments while the other
> resorted to AcAra. These seem to have been integrated into the modern
> political system so as to render it a property dispute. As for (b): yes,
> the judicial system is corrupt, but that's not news. What makes this case
> difficult to research, and the topic might be the interface of classical
> dharma"sAstra with modern secular law, is that we have no way of knowing
> how much the judgments were based exclusively on the merits of the case
> and how much on exchange of money. It might nevertheless be of some
> interest to a researcher somewhere to track this case through the various
> court records. As for Bijoy's (c), I have little to say: everyone alive
> has some ego, and many even have humility as well, regardless of hair
> length.
>
> Fred Smith
>