About Dr. Anantha Rangacharya How to Listen Sponsorship and Donations Previous Talks	Telephone Lecture Announcement ``Rahasya Traya Saaram'' of Sri Vedanta Desika by Vedanta Vidvan Dr. N.S. Anantha Rangacharya Telephone Discourse in English March 24, 2002 (Sunday night US Time) 5:30 PM Pacific / 8:30 PM Eastern

We are honored to announce the next telephone discourse by Vedanta Vidvan Dr. N.S. Anantha Rangacharya. Dr. Anantha Rangacharya is a renowned scholar and the author of numerous books on Indian philosophy. In this lecture he will be presenting the lyric prose poem of Sri Ramanuja, the Saranagati Gadyam, with a discussion of all its major commentaries.

• Date: March 24, 2002 (Sunday night US Time)
• Time: 5:30 PM Pacific / 8:30 PM Eastern
• Language: English
• Cost: FREE

How to listen

The talk will be conducted over a tele-conference bridge and can be heard over your telephone by dialing the following number:

(512) 225-3000
Access Code: 903326#

Press *6 to mute your line once you have joined the teleconference.

Dr. Anantha Rangacharya will speak for about 1 hour, 15 minutes. Following this will be 30 minutes of open Questions and Answers.

Sponsorship and Donations

This lecture has been made possible thanks to the generous donations of several people. However, we still need further donations to keep this lecture series alive. We are asking a donation of $8 per family to help sponsor this discourse. Please click here to do so.

If you have any questions, please contact Krishna Kalale (kkalale1@san.rr.com) or Smt. Nagu Satyan at 303-973-4847.

in the spirit of service,
Krishna Kalale

Titles of Previous Talks

• Fundamental questions facing the spiritual aspirant
• Saadhana as found in the Rg Veda
• An outline of Saadhana in the Upanishads

About Dr. Anantha Rangacharya

Vedanta Vidvan Dr. N.S. Anantha Rangacharya is a renowned scholar of Indian Philosophy. Dr. Anantha Rangacharya studied Vedanta in the traditional manner at the feet of Vedanta Vidvan, Vedanta Sarajna Sri U.Ve. Krishna Tatacharya Swami. He received the B.A. (Hons), B.T., and Ph.D. degrees from Mysore University. For many years he served as Principal of Maharaja's Sanskrit College, Mysore. He is well known for his deep study of all the major philosophers of Vedanta and for his unbiased presentation of Vedantic fundamentals, which is a treat for the open-minded. He has had the distinct honor of lecturing on all seven schools of Vedanta at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, including teaching the works of Sri Sankaracharya four times, a feat rarely matched by scholars of any background.

He has authored over 100 books on Vedanta in both English and Kannada, including translations of the principal Upanishads, detailed expositions of the commentaries of Sri Ramanuja, the Tiruvaymoli of Sri Nammalvar, Sri Vedanta Desika's stotras, and many other works of popular and scholarly interest. He is a tireless lecturer and has conducted discourses in English, Tamil, and Kannada without a break for 30 years in Bangalore.

It is our good fortune that Dr. Anantha Rangacharya has agreed to give us this lecture in English. Everyone should make use of this opportunity to listen to this octogenarian master of philosophy.

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