Sri Ramanujacharya Jayanti, or Ramanuja Jayanthi, celebrates the birth anniversary of Ramanujacharya, the famous South Indian philosopher who advocated that bhakti or devotional worship of Lord Vishnu in any form is the ideal method to attain salvation or moksha. In 2025, the date of Sri Ramanujacharya Jayanti is May 3 as per North Indian calendars and several South Indian panchangs. Please note that some communities will be observing the Jayanti on a separate date (especially in Tamil Nadu). Moving away from the Advaita principles, Ramanuja amalgamated philosophy of Upanishads, Brahma Sutras and gave bhakti tradition a strong intellectual basis.
Note - Some communities observe Sri Ramanujacharya Jayanti on his nakshatra day (Punarvasu or Punartham) and this is a day or two earlier. In 2025, this date is on May 3 in India.
In 2025, it is the 1008th birth anniversary of Sri Ramanujacharya.
In 2025, it is the 1008th birth anniversary of Sri Ramanujacharya.
Freedom to choose one or more personal deity and reach Brahman realization through Bhakti or devotion was preached by Sri Ramanujacharya. Today, this form of spiritual path is followed by majority of Hindus.
Ramanujacharya preached that the world is real and taught to attain Brahman realization by intense devotion or reason or argument rather than intuition. This was just opposite to the Vedanta of Adi Shankaracharya.
Ramanujacharya organized temple worship and founded centers to propagate the devotion of Lord Vishnu and his consort Shri or Mahalakshmi.
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