Three-day event to mark Shankara Jayanti concludes

The three-day annual special prayers, organised by Shri Kanchi Kamkoti Punjabi Dharamshala and Dharamvidhya Nyas, to mark Shankaracharya Jayanti concluded here recently.

Held at Rani Ka Bagh locality’s Park Lane temple, special prayers were performed and floral tributes offered at the portrait of the saint. Five priests from Kerala’s Kanchi Kamkoti Peetham recited prayers from ancient scriptures.

Several city residents, including former cabinet minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla, president of Durgiana Committee, paid obeisance at the temple.

Former Director, IIM Amritsar, Prof Nagarajan Ramamoorthy, an office-bearer of the Nyas, who has been organising the Shankara Jayanthi here for the past three years said the saint from Kerala had given the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta which reconciled various traditions in one thread through religious and cultural traditions across the subcontinent.

Citing immense contribution of Adi Shankaracharya, he said the saint had founded four ‘muths’, at Badrinath in the north, Dwarka in the west, Jagganathpuri in the east and Shringeri in the south centuries ago. The saint had left the world at the young age of 32, but left a body of notable work that continues to be relevant today.