Shiva Pan.cAkSharI

[Mani Varadarajan]

Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:
> Perhaps, the
> story about the conservative opposition to Ramanuja's shouting out the
> eight-syllable mantra for all to hear was because of the presence of the
> praNava.

Looking at the earliest biographies, as well as the story
as Ramanuja's tradition remembers it, Ramanuja did not
shout out anything, much less the eight-syllabled mantra.
He did, however, immediately teach many people the inner
meaning of the mantra in direct violation of his guru's
orders.

Mani