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Post No. 15,557

Date uploaded in London – 31 March 2026

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In November 2022 Calendar I posted 30 quotes under  Kanchi Shankaracharya’s Golden Sayings (Post.11,395); now I add more quotes from the 68th Jagadguru of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamigal 1894-1994 (popularly known as Maha Periyava or the Kanchi Paramacharya).

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Festivals- April 1 Panguni Uththiram; 3 Good Friday;5 Easter ;14 Tamil New Year ; 20 Akshaya Trtyai; 21 Sankara Jayanti; 22 Ramanuja Jayanti; 28 Madurai Meenakshi Kalyanam; 30 Narasimha Jayanti.

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Amavasyai-17; Purnima-2; Ekaadasi Fasting Days 13,27

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Muhurta/ Auspiscious Days

April 20,  23,  30;

(also 6, 12, 13, 16)

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April 1 Wednesday

The Vedas are eternal and the source of all creations. The Vedas are also notable for the lofty truths that find expression in the mantras.

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April 2 Thursday

The remarkable about the Vedas is that they are of values much for their sound as for their verbal content. While the sound has its own creative power, the words are notable for the exalted character of the meaning they convey.

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April 3 Friday

There are mantras that are especially valuable for their sound but are otherwise meaning less. Similarly, there are works pregnant with meaning but with no special Mantrik power.

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April 4 Saturday

The Vedas indeed constitute the apex of our law books.

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April 5 Sunday

What is a Yajna ? it is the performance of a religious duty involving Agni, the sacrificial power with the chanting of Mantra.

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 April 6 Monday

The concept of Yajnas not present in other systems of worship. There is a big difference between our religion, the Vedic Mata, and other faiths.

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April 7 Monday

An important difference between the Vedic religion and other faiths is this: while followers of other religions worship one God, we worship many deities and make offerings to them.

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April 8 Wednesday

The Vedas proclaim that the one Brahman, call it Truth or Reality, is manifested as so many different devatas or deities.  Since each devata is extolled  as Paramatman we know for certain that monotheism  is a Vedic tenet.

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April 9 Thursday

The Vedic sacrifices have a threefold purpose. The first is to earn the blessings of the deities so that we as well other creatures may be happy in this world.

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April 10 Friday

The second is, to ensure after our death we will live happily in the world of the celestials.

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April 11 Saturday

The third purpose is the most important and it is achieved by performing the sacrifices (Yajnas), as taught by the Bhagavad Gita, without any expectation of rewards. Here we desire neither happiness in this world nor residence in the paradise.

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April 12 Sunday

Many matters pertaining to the Vedas may not seem to be in conformity with science and for that reason they are not to be treated as wrong.

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 April 13 Monday

Money is not essential to the performance of the rites enjoined by the sastras nor is pomp and circumstance essential to worship. Even tried Tulsi and BilVa leaves are enough to perform puja.

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April 14 Monday

Sages transcended the frontiers of human knowledge and became one with the universal reality. It is through them that the world received the Vedic mantras.

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Kanchi Shankaracharaya visited Madurai Dinamani office at the request of my father V Sanatanm, News Editor, Dinamani, Madurai.

April 15 Wednesday

The noble characters who figure in the puranas serve as an ideal for all of us to follow. When we read their stories, we are inspired by their examples.

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April 16 Thursday

Manu Parasara, Yajnavalkya, Gautama, Harita, Yama Vishnu Sankha, Likhita Brhaspati, Daksha, Angiras Pracetas, Samvarta Acanas Atri Apastamba and Saataatapa are the eighteen sages who mastered Vedas with their superhuman power and derived the smritis/ law books from them.

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April 17 Friday

Apart from these 18 Smritis,  there are 18 subsidiary smritis called upa smritis. It is customary to include Bhagavad Gita among the smritis.

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April 18 Saturday

If we call ourselves Hindus we must bear certain external marks , outward symbols. Now we have come to such a pass that nobody wears any of the external marks of our religion.

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April 19 Sunday

People ask me why should not the sasrtas be changed to suit our times. The Vedic word cannot and must not be changed at any time and on any account. The same applies to the rules and laws laid down in the smritis/law books of Hindus.

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 April 20 Monday

The greatest of the mahakavis, Kalidasa makes a reference to the smritis in his Raghuvamsa. Sudakshina , of matchless purity and character, following her husband Dilipa is likened to the smritis  closely following the Vedas.

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April 21 Monday

To discriminate between Sruti and Smriti is not correct. Sankara is said to be the abode of the three Sruti Smriti  Purananam alayam- abode of Sruti, Smritis, Puranams;  if the three were at variance with one another, how can they exist together in harmony in the same person?

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April 22 Wednesday

In the Puranas the Vedic truths are illustrated in the form of stories.

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April 23 Thursday

We speak of three worlds: Deva loka/ world of celestials, Manushyaloka (world of ours) and Naraka (hell)

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April 24 Friday

A man’s actions, his works, together with his character, determine his passage to other worlds. Only in this Karmabhumi can we perfect our character by performing virtuous acts and thus qualify to go to another world.

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Kanchi Shankaracharaya visited Madurai Dinamani office at the request of my father V Sanatanm, News Editor, Dinamani, Madurai.

April 25 Saturday

Pura means in the past. That which gives an account of what happened in the past is a purana, even though it may contain predictions about future also.

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April 26 Sunday

Ramayana and Mahabharata are two Ithihsams. Iti-haa- asam – means it happened thus. The haa in the middle means without doubt, truly. So an Itihaasa means a true story, the word can also mean thus speak they

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 April 27 Monday

Our nation, it is often alleged, does not have a sense of history. In my opinion the Puranas are history. History must be taught along with lessons in dharma; then alone will it serve the purpose of bringing people to the right path.

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April 28 Monday

According to the sastras, Vyasa composed the Puranas 5000 years ago, at the beginning of the age of kali, but they must have existed before him also. In the Chandogya Upanishad,  Narada speaks about the subjects learned by him and they include the Puranas. From this we infer that they must have existed during the time of the Vedas and the Upanishads.

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April 29 Wednesday

I regard Vyasa as the first journalist, the ideal for all newspapermen of today.  He composed the puranas and made a gift of that great treasure to humanity.

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April 30 Thursday

Vyasa composed the Puranas in 400,000 granthas.  A grantha is a stanza consisting of 32 syllables. Of these Skanda purana alone accounts for 100,000. It is perhaps the world’s biggest literary work. The remaining 17 puranas add up to 300,000 granthas. Apart from them Vyasa composed the Mahabharata , also nearly , 100,000 granthas.

–subham—

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