New Delhi: Amid the row over the Shankaracharyas reportedly divided over the consecration ceremony on the Ayodhya Ram Temple on January 22, Puri Shankaracharya Nischalananda Saraswati dominated out any such distinction and stated the claims are “false”. “There aren’t any variations between the 4 Shankaracharyas over Ram Temple, it is false,” the religious chief was heard saying in a video shared by information company ANI.
Based on experiences, variations had cropped up between the 4 Shankaracharyas over the consecration of the Ram Lalla idol, with two of them criticising the organisers, saying the occasion goes towards the tenets of Hinduism.
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The 4 Shankaracharyas lead the principle mutts in Dwarka (Gujarat), Joshimath (Uttarakhand), Puri (Odisha), and Sringeri (Karnataka), established by the eighth-century seer Adi Shankara.
Whereas the Puri and Joshimath Shankaracharyas reportedly argued that putting in the Ram idol in an “incomplete temple” was towards the Hindu scriptures, the opposite two religious leaders prolonged full help and stated the consecration occasion was a matter of pleasure and was being achieved in accordance with the ‘Sanatan Dharma’.
“Not one of the 4 pontiffs could be in Ayodhya on January 22 as a result of the temple is being consecrated earlier than development is accomplished. It’s the responsibility of Shankaracharya to make sure that non secular scriptures are correctly adopted. The scriptures are being undermined by finishing up consecration earlier than the development of the temple is full. There is no such thing as a cause for this rush,” Joshimath Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati stated earlier this week.
Clearing the air over “variations” inside them, Puri Shankaracharya stated, “It is crucial that the idol consecration occurs in accordance with the rituals, retaining in thoughts the Hindu scriptures. And there’s no distinction of opinion between the 4 Shankaracharyas over this.”