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From: Krishna Kalale (kkalale_at_qualcomm.com)
Date: Fri Dec 12 1997 - 15:07:21 PST
At 02:25 PM 12/12/97 -0500, Ram Gopalaswamy wrote: >Curious about Gostipuram Sri Sowmya Naaraayanaacarya Svaami's >background & guru parampara. > >Could knowledgeable members help ? > > HarE KrshhNa! > > Goshtipuram Sri Sowmya Narayanaacharya Svaami is the Guru of SM Srinivasachari, the author of 5 or 6 standard books on Vaishnavism, Introduction to Visistadvaita - astudy based on Tattvamuktakalapa, Visistadvaita & Advaita - based on Satadushani of Sri Vedanta Desika, Mysticism and pHilosophy of Alwars etc. Goshtipuram swamy, as he is known was a great scholar who was a grihasta who taught many acharyas! He was a classic chatus-shastrajna. Most scholars of Srivaishnavism know this person and respect him for his class as a teacher in philosophy and a rigid shrotriya who lived the orthodox way. Please let me know how you came across this person's name. Adiyen Krishna Kalale