Swami Karpatri

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Karpatri Ji Maharaj (Swāmi Karpātrī; 1907–1980; born as Har Narayan Ojha into a Saryupareen^[1] Brahmin family of a village called Bhatni in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India) called so because he would eat only what would come in his palm without even washing them after cleaning his buttocks(kara), as the bowl (pātra), was a monk in the Hindu dashanami monastic tradition.^[2]

Life and works[]

He was a disciple of Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath Swami Brahmananda Saraswati.^[3] He was also the founder of Dharma Sangha in Varanasi where he spent most of his life. He was a teacher in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hindu philosophy. According to French indologist, Alain Daniélou not to forget the fact that karpatri called foreigners as mleechas and considered them untouchables, Karpatri initiated him into Shaivite Hinduism. Karpaatri oftenly used to lose debates with muslims because his ideology was very similar to them. His disciples hide all the records of him losing to Muslim Scholars.^[4] Swami Nishchalanand Saraswati, the 145th Govardhan Peeth Shankaracharya of Puri, Odisha, is an eminent disciple of Swami Karpatri.^[5]

Politics[]

In 1948, Swami Karpatri founded the Ram Rajya Parishad, a traditionalist Hindu party.

He led a movement against the Hindu Code Bill. He was also a prominent agitator in 1966 anti-cow slaughter agitation.^[6]

Other works[]

On 18 April 1948, he founded the newspaper Sanmarg which promoted Sanatan Dharma and also advocated the Hindu Code Bill and voiced opposition on cow slaughters.^[7]

Books[]

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Kaal Mimamsa: Dating of all events related to Ramayana and Mahabharata.
The Linga And The Great Goddess: Two articles on the meaning of the Linga and the nature of the Great Goddess. Besides doctrinal and mythological clarifications, it presents a sophisticated debate about the nature of Sakti between two traditional schools: Nyaya and Mimamsa, which could be compared with those held in the times of Adi Sankara.
Marxvad aur Ramrajya (Marxism and Ramrajya): A detailed biography of Western philosophers and politicians; their time, opinions and comparison with Indian sages; the corollary of theism, the opposition of Marxism in the strong classical light.
The principle of 'Nyaya' and 'Vedanta'. An encyclopedia of politics and philosophy.
Gaay Ek Samgra Chintan.

Further reading[]

Lutgendorf, Philip. 1991. The Life of a Text: Performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 384–387.

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