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Shyam Manohar Goswami

Shyam Manohar Goswami (IAST: Śyāma Manohara Gosvāmī, Hindi: श्याम मनोहर गोस्वामी, Gujarati: શ્યામ મનોહર ગોસ્વામી) also known as Shyamu Bava (IAST: Śyāmu Bāvā, Hindi: श्यामु बावा, Gujarati: શ્યામુ બાવા), is the 16th descendant of Shri Vallabha Acharya, sanskritists, philosopher, spiritual leader, active reformer & guru of the Krishna-centered Pushtimarg sect of Vaishnavism.[1][2][3]

Shyam Manohar Goswami
Shyam Manohar Goswami in 2014
Personal
Born (1940-06-26) 26 June 1940 (age 83)
Mumbai, India
ReligionHinduism
NationalityIndian
SectPushtimarg
Organization
PhilosophyHindu philosophy, Shuddhadvaita, Pushtimarg, Vedanta
ResidenceVileParle, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Kishangarh, Rajasthan, India

He belongs to the first house of the Pushtimarg.[4] His ancestral lineage had settled in Kishangarh by the eighteenth century, and by the ninteeth century his family had moved to Mumbai. He is considered one of the most prominent living theologians of the Vallabha family. He does not maintain a large retinue like other goswamis nor does he travel widely to preach sermons. Since the 1980s he has refused to worship at any of the public Pushtmarg temples (including Shrinathji's in Nathdwara), and orders his disciples to do the same. Shyam Manohar Goswami's opinions on temples and vittajā sevā (financial donations) are generally opposed by other goswamis, and in 1992 he debated Goswami Hariray in the Puṣṭi Siddhānt Carcā Sabhā.[5]

Academia & Research edit

 
Shyam Manohar Goswami giving lecture at the Indian philosophical congress, Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies – 2017

He was the lecturer on Vallabh Vedanta at the 91st session of the Indian philosophical congress held in February 2017 at the Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies in Madhya Pradesh, India.[6][7]

Pandit Jasraj has done extensive research in Haveli Sangeet under Shyam Manohar Goswami to create numerous innovative bandish (composition).[8]

Bibliography edit

Shyam Manohar Goswami has written, and continues to write independent works on Pushtimarg theology and philosophy.[9][10][11][12][13] He has also written commentaries on most of Vallabha's works, including all sixteen treatises.[14]

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  1. ^ "Shyamdas Recognized in Pushti Publication". shyamdasfoundation.com. Shyamdasfoundation. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  2. ^ Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar (28 February 2014). Indian Transnationalism Online: New Perspectives on Diaspora. Ashgate (28 February 2014). p. 233. ISBN 978-1472419132.
  3. ^ A Storm of Songs (Harvard University Press, 2015 ed.). Acknowledgements: Harvard University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780674425286.
  4. ^ Bachrach, Emilia (2014). Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar; de Kruijf, Johannes G. (eds.). Indian Transnationalism Online: New Perspectives on Diaspora. Ashgate. p. 168.
  5. ^ Bachrach, Emilia. Reading the Medieval in the Modern: The Living Tradition of Hagiography in the Vallabh Sect of Contemporary Gujarat (Phd thesis). University of Texas at Austin. p. 158, 168-174.
  6. ^ "91st Session of Indian philosophy Congress" (PDF). indianphilosophicalcongress. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Day 2 News – 91st Session of Indian philosophy Congress" (PDF). sanchiuniv.org.in. Sanchi University. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  8. ^ "A custom of culture". The Hindu. No. Online edition of India's National Newspaper. 1 December 2004. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Shri Shyammanoharji Granths". pushtimarg.net. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  10. ^ "Articles". pushtisahitya.org. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  11. ^ "National Seminar". jnanapravaha.org. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  12. ^ The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition. Columbia University Press (19 March 2013). 19 March 2013. p. 263. ISBN 978-0231149990.
  13. ^ Kumar, Shashiprabha (2006). Veda as word (2006 ed.). Special Centre For Sanskrit Studies & D. K. Printworld (2006). p. 42. ISBN 8124603766.
  14. ^ Sharma, Shital (August 2006). Restoring Ananda: Philosophy, Aesthetic Experience, and Ritual in Pushtimarga Vaishnavism (PDF). Canada: Faculty of Religious Studies McGill University, Montreal. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-494-32561-2. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  15. ^ "Jain Library: Multiplex Concepts of Yoga" (PDF). jainlibrary.org. Jain Library. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  16. ^ "Avataravadavali". nationallibrary.gov.in. Kolhapur : Vaibhav Cooperative Society, 2004. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  17. ^ "Pustividhanam". nationallibrary.gov.in. Bombay : Sahayoga Prakashan, 1996. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
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