Chandrasekharendra saraswati swami biography of michael

68th Peethadishwar of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham

Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Shankaracharya Mahaswamigal (born in a Kannada Smartha family as Swaminathan Shasthri; 20 May – 8 January ) also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyavar (meaning, "The great elder") was the 68th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Moolamnaya Saravjna Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham.

Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal (– 8 January 1994) [birth name: Swaminathan], also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyava.

68th Acharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt.

Early life​​ Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Mahaswamigal (born Swaminathan Shasthri) was born on 20 May 1894.

His Holiness the 68th Jagadguru of Kanchi died in 1994 at the age of 100.

This book consists of selections from the more than 2,000 discourses of Kanchi Sankaracharya.

Mahaperiyavar's discourses have been recorded in a Tamil book titled "Deivathin Kural" (Voice of God).

Early life

Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Mahaswamigal (born Swaminathan Shasthri) was born on 20 May He was brought up in the central part of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Villupuram, South Arcot District.

Kannada Smartha Brahmin Rig Vedic family that had migrated to Tamil Nadu generations earlier. Subrahmanya Sastri worked as a teacher having entered the educational service. His mother Mahalakshmi was also from a Kannada Brahmin family from the vill