Chandrashekarendra Saraswati

Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Mahaswamigal (born Swaminathan Shasthri; 20 May 1894 – 8 January 1994) also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyavar (meaning, "The great elder") was the 68th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham. Mahaperiyavar's discourses have been recorded in a Tamil book titled "Deivathin Kural" (Voice of God).

Quotes

• • "The Indologists and Orientalists . . . introduced the till then unheard of concept of Aryans and Dravidians, which created mutual hatred"
  • (Shankaracharya, Chandrasekharendra Saraswati 1988, 16). in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13

• The Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham Sankaracharya echoes the same suspicions of pro-Christian Western hermeneutics: "Their conclusions would permit them to regard the ancient risis as primitive men inferior to the moderns. . . . their analysis of our religious texts was motivated by the desire to show Christianity as a better religion"
  • (Chandrasekharendra Saraswati 1988, 16) quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13