Shyam Manohar Goswami Explained

Shyam Manohar Goswami
Religion:Hinduism
Birth Date:26 June 1940
Birth Place:Mumbai, India
Nationality:Indian
Sect:Pushtimarg
Philosophy:Hindu philosophy, Shuddhadvaita, Pushtimarg, Vedanta
Free Label:Residence
Free Text:VileParle, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Kishangarh, Rajasthan, India

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]

He belongs to the first house of the Pushtimarg.[4] His ancestral lineage had settled in Kishangarh by the eighteenth century, and by the nineteeth 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

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

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]

Books

Articles

Book Edits

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shyamdas Recognized in Pushti Publication. shyamdasfoundation.com. Shyamdasfoundation. 17 June 2017.
  2. Book: Sahoo. Ajaya Kumar. Indian Transnationalism Online: New Perspectives on Diaspora. 28 February 2014. Ashgate (28 February 2014). 978-1472419132. 233.
  3. Book: A Storm of Songs. 2015. Harvard University Press. Acknowledgements. 9780674425286. Harvard University Press, 2015.
  4. Book: Bachrach, Emilia . Indian Transnationalism Online: New Perspectives on Diaspora . Ashgate . 2014 . Sahoo . Ajaya Kumar . 168 . de Kruijf . Johannes G..
  5. Bachrach . Emilia . Reading the Medieval in the Modern: The Living Tradition of Hagiography in the Vallabh Sect of Contemporary Gujarat . Phd . University of Texas at Austin . 158, 168-174.
  6. Web site: 91st Session of Indian philosophy Congress. indianphilosophicalcongress. 25 July 2017.
  7. Web site: Day 2 News – 91st Session of Indian philosophy Congress. sanchiuniv.org.in. Sanchi University. 25 July 2017.
  8. News: A custom of culture. https://web.archive.org/web/20181106041133/https://www.thehindu.com/mp/2004/12/01/stories/2004120100800300.htm. dead. 6 November 2018. 25 July 2017. Online edition of India's National Newspaper. The Hindu. 1 December 2004.
  9. Web site: Shri Shyammanoharji Granths. pushtimarg.net. 17 June 2017.
  10. Web site: Articles. pushtisahitya.org. 17 June 2017.
  11. Web site: National Seminar. jnanapravaha.org. 17 June 2017.
  12. Book: The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition. Columbia University Press (19 March 2013). 978-0231149990. 263. 19 March 2013.
  13. Book: Kumar. Shashiprabha. Veda as word. 2006. Special Centre For Sanskrit Studies & D. K. Printworld (2006). 8124603766. 42. 2006.
  14. Book: Sharma. Shital. Restoring Ananda: Philosophy, Aesthetic Experience, and Ritual in Pushtimarga Vaishnavism. August 2006. Faculty of Religious Studies McGill University, Montreal. Canada. 76. 25 July 2017. 978-0-494-32561-2.
  15. Web site: Jain Library: Multiplex Concepts of Yoga. jainlibrary.org. Jain Library. 25 July 2017.
  16. Web site: Avataravadavali . nationallibrary.gov.in. Kolhapur : Vaibhav Cooperative Society, 2004. 25 July 2017.
  17. Web site: Pustividhanam . nationallibrary.gov.in. Bombay : Sahayoga Prakashan, 1996. 25 July 2017.

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