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Ramanujacarya


He was born in 1017 AD in a small village near Kanchipuram. Mahapurna, the disciple of Yamunacarya, initiated him. He took the sannyasa name Yatiraja. He lived the later part of his life in Sri Rangam, a large temple located on an island by Tiruchirappalli. He lived to the age of 120. He established 74 Sri Vaishnavas centers and converted thousands of followers including several kings. Besides householders his followers included 700 sannyasis, 12,000 brahmacaris, and 300 ketti ammais (ladies who have taken a vow of renunciation). He left his body in the month of Magha, 1137 AD in Sri Rangam.

He taught that there is a difference between the Supreme Brahman and the individual soul. He taught that by God’s grace the jiva (individual soul) could get out of the material world and attain the eternal abode of Lord Vishnu. He always defeated any scholar who preached the impersonal school of thought.

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