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Hyagreeva Cine Arts chose to make a film on Ramanuja to inform the next generation of this legacy.
A revered sanyasin who had dared to question received wisdom, had refused to tread the beaten track and had challenged established convention, left his beloved Srirangam, and began a long trek to Karnataka. The sanyasin- Ramanuja- had to leave, because the ruler of the time, who later acquired the epithet, Kirumikanthan, wished to snuff out Sri Vaishnavism and the life of Ramanuja.
Ramanuja’s peregrinations earned him new followers, wherever he set foot, and Sri Vaishnavism continued to thrive in these places, long after Ramanuja’s departure from this world.
Read more from here:http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/on-a-visionary-and-his-mission/article4904719.ece
A revered sanyasin who had dared to question received wisdom, had refused to tread the beaten track and had challenged established convention, left his beloved Srirangam, and began a long trek to Karnataka. The sanyasin- Ramanuja- had to leave, because the ruler of the time, who later acquired the epithet, Kirumikanthan, wished to snuff out Sri Vaishnavism and the life of Ramanuja.
Ramanuja’s peregrinations earned him new followers, wherever he set foot, and Sri Vaishnavism continued to thrive in these places, long after Ramanuja’s departure from this world.
Read more from here:http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/on-a-visionary-and-his-mission/article4904719.ece