Welcome Vidyasankar Sundaresan

[V Subrahmanian]

https://www.facebook.com/744842420/posts/10163323876397421/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Kiranavali Vidyasankar broke the very exciting news of the return of our dear Vidyasankar Sundaresan to the world of Vedanta. Read the story in the above link.

Warm regards 

subbu

[Kuntimaddi Sadananda]

PraNAms - Glad to read about Vidyasankar. I recall the early days - he and Mani (a Vishishtadvaitin) debating on the internet about the nature of truth. 

The early days were really fascinating. 

Later, this Advaita group formed for discussions on the Advaita topics. 

Hari Om!

Sada

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[Vikram Jagannathan]

Namaskaram!

Very glad to hear this wonderful news, and more importantly, reading through his wonderful article!

I have been growing up, learning the subtle nuances and clarifications on Advaita siddhanta from his 2-decades long messages in the list archives. I have long since considered Shri Vidyasankar, through his articles and posts, as one of my gurus in my quest for Truth.

My sincere prayers and wishes for his full recovery and active participation in this group at the earnest.

prostrations,

Vikram

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[putran M]

Namaskaram,

I did not know of his stroke or surrounding details. That it has taken him 8+ years to come to this stage shows how serious an affliction to the body it was/is. Am happy that he is recovering and wish him a normal life going forward. 

thollmelukaalkizhu

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[sunil bhattacharjya]

Dear Subbuji,

Thank you for this great news. I heard about the stroke eight years ago, from none other than the kind lady, Mrs.Vidyasankar.

Dr. Vidyasankar is a very well-read person, and we have been missing him. Hope he will be able to participate in the discussions in the near future.

If my memory serves me right, at that time, we were about to discuss the historicity of Sri Harsha, who was a friend and a contemporary of the Satavahana King, Hala (pronounced as Haala) or Purna. I also read that one of the Mathadhipatiji's of the Sringeri math had a record, that Adi Sankara was born on the 14th year of the reign of Sri Harsha.

Let us hope that soon we will be able to hear about the health of Dr Vidyasankar.

Regards

Sunil KB

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[Venkatraghavan S]

That is wonderful news. Wishing him a complete recovery and return to the advaita lists with the blessings of Acharyas and Sharadamba.

Regards

Venkatraghavan 

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[Ananta Chaitanya [Sarasvati]]

Namaste Subbuji,

Thanks for sharing this wonderful news. Vidyasankar ji has been missed by many of us. Prayers for his good health henceforth.

Kind rgds,
--Ananta Chaitanya
/* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know That, owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM Uddeshya Sharma via Advaita-l <adva...@lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

Namaskara respected members ,

Newbies like us wonder at all the awe regarding Shri Sundaresan ji. We will
be interested to know more about him. A general introduction of him and his
works ( and where to find them ) might suffice since even hearing about
great personalities has a subconscious inspiring effect on the brain.

Namaste 

You can get a fairly good idea of Vidyasankar ji in his latest article here:

https://www.facebook.com/744842420/posts/10163323876397421/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

 In this Archives of Advaita l  https://www.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/  search for posts prior to 2014 in his name and you can read them there. 

regards

subbu

Pranamas.
Shiva Shiva .

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[V Subrahmanian]

Kiranavali's post; not everyone will have an FB account: 

Our journey in life following Vidyasankar Sundaresan's stroke 8 years ago have been so full of twists and turns, it was sometimes impossible to imagine what the next minute would bring. It makes me very emotional to think how Vidyasankar has handled this sudden and dramatic change in his plans - with super-human levels of patience, acceptance, fortitude and a constant smile, to be mindful of my morale. His strong anchoring in Indian scriptures and philosophy has surely played a big part. Given that life is a mixed bag, even in some of the darkest moments, there were some mercies. For example, Vidyasankar's brilliant mind, with its way-higher-than-average memory, was left intact. But as we all know, this is a double edged sword that could have made life worse with someone of less calibre than him.

While it is easy to have a lot of ideas on how to be more spiritual or motivate oneself in such helpless circumstances, it takes stupendous effort to stay on track and find purpose again in living as the alternative seems closer. It was indeed incredible to see Vidyasankar correctly answer questions posed each hour by the ICU nurses to check his cognition levels such as the day, date, year or other mundane details. Especially remarkable given that in the ICU, days merged into nights and into weeks and months, even for those of us who were up and about. And all this when he was incapacitated to the point that he could only answer with the blink of his eyes. He would exactly describe his symptoms to his doctors, with the help of a letter board, spelling out things such as phantom pain, while we scrambled to Google to find out what they meant! After about 2 years of therapy, he regained his speech to a decent degree, but at all times has relentlessly worked to kept his mind active through chants, podcasts, consumption of daily news and watching shows. Lately, he has been asking our daughter to quiz him on math-based stuff like logarithms.

Early in November 2024, another series of twists, culminated in the unexpected blessing of meeting with the Sringeri Acharya, Sri. Vidhushekhara Bharati. Though young in age, he carries the wisdom of a ripe gnani, that immediately touched both of us. At his behest, Vidyasankar resumed his journey in writing on Vedanta. While the Acharyas have always taken a personal interest in his recovery and welfare from the minute they heard about his ill-health, putting back a strong purpose to his life has simply been the most meaningful blessing of all. In March this year, when I saw Vidyasankar dictate his first article to a young aspirant of Vedanta, in a matter of an hour, a thousand emotions, suppressed and expressed surfaced. Today, with a ton of gratitude and happiness, I share his first article in a series that will be published in Tattvaloka, the monthly magazine of Dakshinamnaya Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham. Kindly add your prayers for his continued contribution, recovery and happiness. Sorry for the long post.

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms

Hare Krishna

 

Oh!!! That is really really great news…I too consider him as one of my teacher who along with Sri Jaldhar Vyas prabhuji took personal interest in me and helped me to come out of clutches of dogmatic ISKCON view on Advaita and presenting the genuine purport of shankara’s Advaita vedAnta.  Infact, Sri Vidya prabhuji himself advised me to follow Sri SSS’s works as I am a Kannadiga.  Any personal message to either of the group after recovery ??  kindly share it.  Anyway, I am writing to his personal email ID just to see whether he remembers me after all these years..I hope he would definitely remembers me as we had shared lot of personal information before his illness.

 

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

bhaskar