[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Shastra reference for Sanyasa Ashrama

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Mon Jun 5 06:40:32 EDT 2023


On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 2:30 PM Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at hitachienergy.com>
wrote:

> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> In the Jivanmukti viveka Swami Vidyaranya accepts sannyasa for women,
> without uttering the praisha mantra but by saying its equivalent in their
> mother tongue.
>
> >  this is very interesting.  Please let me have the exact reference.


Pl see this page: p. 182
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.495226/page/n201/mode/2up
and foot note there.

And p. 277:
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.495226/page/n295/mode/2up


But when it has been allowed by traditional acharya why we don’t see any
> saNyAsini from the orthodox traditional mutts like Sringeri / Kanchi??  Nor
> there is any formal initiation (deeksha) to any stree by any traditional
> Amnaya Acharya!!... interested and abled strees would get sannyasa deeksha
> only from modern centers like chinmaya, arshavidya, ramakrishna mission
> etc.
>
> Also he cites a verse that says: The mother and the wife of a person who
> takes sannyasa as per the vidhi, will be getting a male body in their later
> life.
>
> >  when stree also eligible to take sannyasa why special insistence on
> male body??  Not able to understand this.


This can be taken as a stuti of krama sannyasa.

regards
subbu

>
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
>
>


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