Learning from Sri Ramanuja | Prof. Francis X. Clooney
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- Professor Francis Xavier Clooney (Parkman Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School) gives a discourse on the teachings of Sri Ramanuja who was the chief proponent of the Vishishtadvaita school of Vedanta.
Father Clooney joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in 2005. After earning his doctorate in South Asian languages and civilizations (University of Chicago, 1984), he taught at Boston College for 21 years before coming to Harvard.
His primary areas of Indological scholarship are theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India. He is also a leading figure globally in the developing field of comparative theology, a discipline distinguished by attentiveness to the dynamics of theological learning deepened through the study of traditions other than one’s own. He has also written on the Jesuit missionary tradition, particularly in India, on the early Jesuit pan-Asian discourse on reincarnation, and on the dynamics of dialogue and interreligious learning in the contemporary world.
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Wonderful , why doesnt these true and fantastic side of religion get popularity ? It could solve many social and religious problems . Wonderful
Very well said. I can give literally thousands of (no exaggeration) examples of such kind from ancient to our modern times where religions favoured one another and recognised the Divine Truth in the other (without of course falling into the error of syncretism). These examples are counterintuitive to our contemporary paradigm of looking at religion. The sad irony is that in pre modern times religion was all pervasive and people very religious and saw the same Divinity in other traditions in contrast with today's world where there is loss of religion. Religion emptied of its Divine content is replaced by ideology. Hence there are clash of mere ideologies e.g. nationalism (which is erroneously reported in the media as clash of religions). In short it is absense of religion which produces clash.
@@dhananjaisamant895 you are made an excellent comment...it was enlighten me. Yes you seem correct, in past time there were a tolerance and respect for each other...recognize that God is something too perfect and divine to encase in book and politics...today not only is there a no religion at all, political idea is fashioned as religion...by people who brag that they are the "real religion".
Brilliant ...I learnt a lot today about Sri Ramanuja . I vote for Professor Father Francis Xavier Clooney to be the next Pope ! How even more harmonious the world religions become !.
Extraordinary!! ...that someone can be so fluent with Indian culture and spirituality, and goes beyond with an understanding of the essence of the Advaita and Vishistadvaita paths!! Pleasure to hear this talk.
Visista Advaita is more stronger and logical than Shankar's Advaita.
@@binitasahoo3872 nope
Outstanding Presentation. You are truly gifted, to have read and understood deeply the works of Shri Ramanuja. My limitation is my vocabulary . In one word, if I have to say how you presented the theological aspect in a very easy way is just simply "Awesome".
The explanation, you gave for "Adiyen (அடியேன்)" ... To be at the feet of the lord and serve him. This one sentence will touch every vaishnav across the globe.
Your comment on meditation is nothing but a "A long loving look at God".
May God Bless You and Your Family.
Very sophisticated, deep lecture, wonderful speaker. Would love to see Swami do a lecture on Ramanuja sometime too.
I came here because of your comment about this video on let's talk religion channel.
Thanks for that.
@@ishanbajpai6940 you are welcome :)
Literal goosebumps for the opening music... 🙏 Om Namo Narayana Nama 🙏
The intro music was beautiful. Could you point me toward an English translation of the words?
Pranam to him. His voice and words both sounds like deep ocean. Gift of gab ! The world really has good human , teacher . Pranam😊 Looking forward to today's streaming.
Wow this is super deep understanding of the historical alwars! Super imppressed Professor Xavier Clooney!
When you think every path leads to God….biases will vanish and peace will reign supreme,God please bestow this Knowledge on all of us🙏
When you think that every path leads to God, then you end up taking a shit path to hell.
"All paths" lead to a factory farm rebirth, most likely.
Only absolute surrender leads to God
Wonderful Father Clooney. Swami Priyananda it is commendable that a man of your vast knowledge, has an apparently never ending thirst for more of the same. God and his magnificent shines through you.🙏
1:06:35 wonderful answer of following once dharma and still learning from others in short crisp 5- 10 minutes .
Even interfaith conferences can’t go that far in hours of discussions. Only enlightened one can speak that way.
Definitely; worth listening to several times.
Great speaker but I miss my guru 🙏🏻🕉🙏🏻
Thank you Dr.learnt so much more about Ramanuja…will try to read the Gadyas…
God bless us all
EXCELLENT AND AWESOME ... SPELLBOUND... THANKS VERY MUCH...
Beautiful lecture. Devotees of our tradition should take Ramanuja much more seriously as a predecessor than we do currently, at least compared to Shankara.
Thank you
Shrīpād Rāmānuja ki jay
Excellent presentation
The place where the he goes Ramananuja goes on temple tower is sriperumpudoor prof. Not srirangam . It’s recorded history
If you’re referring to Rāmānujāchārya climbing the Rajagopuram to reveal Ashtakshari mantrardha then it is in Goshthipuram not Sri Perumbudoor.
I sometimes find Vishistadvaitha to be more scientific and logical than Advaita. I feel it has both theoretical and practical logic compared to Advaita which has more theoretical logic
I don't think so Advaita seems absolute.
I much prefer it too advaita, retaining some sense of individuality feels much nicer.
"Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha"
Dasoham!
May the blessings and grace of Jagadguru Srimadh Ramanujacharya be with one and all forever.
Harihi 🕉 Thathsath
🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️
Simply Great.
Pranaam🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Fascinating name. Francis Xavier?!
I would like to sincerely & respectfully request the speakers to refer to Sankara as either Adi Sankara, Sri Adi Sankara or Sri Sankara Bhagavad-pāda. Thanks! Namasté!
I disagree with you about what India needs today . The various versions of Hinduism as preached by our past Spiritual leaders have not confrontational . They lived side by side till India was invaded by the 2 monotheistic evangelical religions . What we need in India today is for the invading foreign religions to shut up and not create schism in society . India was , is and will always be a Dharmic civilization. The problem is those of monotheistic religions .
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Met him in person
Not Srirangam temple but the one at Tiruvottiyur itself
Thank you very much Sir
Wonderful, I don't mean to disrespect Shankaracharya's Adwait, but this is the reality. 99.9 % Hindus follow Ramanujacharya whether they know or not. They believe in Ishwar.
More like 60%. Mostly Sri Vaishnava. About 60%
@@knowledgedesk1653 Shaivas also believe in visishtadvaita.
@@black_rx4549 not all. Veerashaiva believe in Vishistadvaita. While Trika believe in type of Advaita.
@@knowledgedesk1653 Yes. I never said all. Most shaivas follow visishtadvaita in one form or another. Trika isn't very popular and is near extinction.
Shaiva siddhanta is straight up dualist and pasupata is also not advaita.
Although more popular hymns are created by shankra himself
Excellent, thank you! I've always appreciated Prof. Clooney's review statements in Swami Chetanananda's wonderful books. I would also like to comment that only Advaita can be true. How could omnipresence, infinity, oneness share existence with anything else? There's no 'room' for anything else - other than appearance. Of course, infinite reality must have infinite paths to the realization of that truth, with each path based on a (apparent) person's individual spiritual preference. PS - Very nice epilogue by Swamiji!
Swamiji was asked a similar question in his Chit Heads interview; he gave a pretty good answer which suggested that qualified non dualism and advaita can be reconciled. I won't try a explain how because I can't give justice to his words :)
@@chendaforest Monism is itself a joke in itself and what to speak of Vedas?
Basically, Ramaunjacarya's Non-Dualism is very diferent from Sankara's Non-Dualism.
This person is very respectable knowingly distorted the teachings and philosphy of Maha Bhagwad Sripad Ramaunjacarya.
@@soumyabratasahoo3649 Who is ?
@@chendaforest The speaker, Mataji
Perhaps because the ontology of av is wrong?
Ramanuja wrote in manipravlam which is also tamil
42:00 God's form!
I can't stand lectures without unfamiliar words written on a screen so I can see the spelling. The TH-cam generated captions are still crap (as of Nov 2021).
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT BEING A HINDU?
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1) Believe in God ! - Aastik - Accepted
2) Don't believe in God ! - You're accepted as Nastik
3) You want to worship idols - please go ahead. You are a murti pujak.
4) You dont want to worship idols - no problem. You can focus on Nirguna Brahman.
5) You want to criticise something in our religion. Come forward. We are logical. Nyaya, Tarka etc. are core Hindu schools.
6) You want to accept beliefs as it is. Most welcome. Please go ahead with it.
7) You want to start your journey by reading Bhagvad Gita - Sure !
8) You want to start your journey by reading Upanishads - Go ahead.
9) You want to start your journey by reading Purana - Be my guest.
10) You just don't like reading Puranas or other books. No problem my dear. Go by Bhakti tradition . ( bhakti- devotion)
11) You don't like idea of Bhakti ! No problem. Do your Karma. Be a karmayogi.
12) You want to enjoy life. Very good. No problem at all. This is Charvaka Philosophy.
13) You want to abstain from all the enjoyment of life & find God - jai ho ! Be a Sadhu, an ascetic !
14) You don't like the concept of God. You believe in Nature only - Welcome. (Trees are our friends and Prakriti or nature is worthy of worship).
15) You believe in one God or Supreme Energy. Superb! Follow Advaita philosophy
16) You want a Guru. Go ahead. Receive gyaan.
17) You don't want a Guru.. Help yourself ! Meditate, Study !
18) You believe in Female energy ! Shakti is worshipped.
19) You believe that every human being is equal. Yeah! You're awesome, come on let's celebrate Hinduism!
"Vasudhaiva kutumbakam" (the world is a family)
20) You don't have time to celebrate the festival.
Don't worry. One more festival is coming! There are multiple festivals every single day of the year.
21) You are a working person. Don't have time for religion. Its okay. You will still be a Hindu.
22) You like to go to temples. Devotion is loved.
23) You don't like to go to temples - no problem. You are still a Hindu!
24) You know that Hinduism ☺ is a way of life, with considerable freedom.
25) You believe that everything has God in it. So you worship your mother, father, guru, tree, River, Prani-matra, Earth, Universe!
26) And If you don't believe that everything has GOD in it - No problems. Respect your viewpoint.
27) "Sarve jana sukhino bhavantu " (May you all live happily)
You represent this! You're free to choose, my dear Hindu!
This is exactly the essence of Hinduism, all inclusive .. That is why it has withstood the test of time inspite of repeated onslaught both from within and outside, and assimilated every good aspects from everything . That is why it is eternal !!!
There is a saying in Rigveda , the first book ever known to mankind which depicts the Hinduism philosophy in a Nutshell -" Ano bhadrah Krathavo Yanthu Vishwathah"- Let the knowledge come to us from every direction"....
Amazing comment, thanks for sharing
Bro Bhagwan shiva has given 112 meditation techniques in Vigyan Bhairav Tantra where as Buddhism has only two meditations vippasyana and anapanasati meditation and Jainism has only one 🙏😊
I m copying this and will use it for further discussion.thx for sharing
AMDG: (attended Catholic schools); not quite what I had known. Three Hail Marys🙏
Contrary to reputation the Jesuits have been doing their own thing for centuries.
Shri Ramanujacharya was the greatest exponent of Vedanta, far greater than Sri Adi Shankaracharya. Unlike Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Sri Ramanujacharya lived all his life by what he believed in and what he preached. Sri Ramanujacharya did not employ complicated word gymnastics but inculcated in his works a certain spiritual aspect.
Comparisons does no good. Different times, different needs.
Whenever we classify Acharyas as great, greatest- its great disservice to them. They all are beyond classification.
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Intellectuality of shankra is par excellence
Tho he is more relatable to masses
Shankra is for highest yogis
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It is not the gopuram of srirangam, it is at tirukkoshtiyur temple gopuram
1:00:00
Why does the good professor insist on mispronouncing Sri Ramanuja's name? Odd.
He could have a lisp that prevents him, so he has to say it in an alternative way. I really doubt this stems from malice of any kind.
1:05:00
What´s the joke about the police a reference to?
I assume there was some incident outside involving the police.
First in All.
Yeah!
@TruthMan It depends, and may be but I don't know because nobody know the future!!
@TruthMan when you have finished eating your meal, you have to rejoin the back of the queue
who is the lord,,,,,,,,,ME
You are wrong about the word Caste . It was introduced to Indian lexicology by Portuguese invaders ( Castas ) . What was in existence was Varna shaastra which is not Caste !
Stop lying Untouchability was in place long before any europeans set foot.
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ANIMALS DONT NEED SWAMI.........THEY DONT ARGUE THEOLOGY......
talking is cheap........people follow like sheep.....KARMA IS SUPERIOR
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