SquareShooter

Abuse me for the title if you are a traditionalist, but don’t stop reading it. It is indeed a shameful discovery of a great text through the book that was in its origins a doctoral thesis of an American scholar. It was in 2003, a compulsory confinement at home, and spending time on that large sofa all alone at home, I resorted to use internet to find books, articles, though I was struggling with an awfully slow internet connection and a laptop not in a great condition. I was reading whatever I could, random as ever. The days spent in the hospital and then the bed rest at home were spent reading many Karen Armstrong books. Around that time somewhere I found the title Singing the Body of God: The Hymns of Vedāntadeśika in Their South Indian Tradition  (Oxford University Press, 2002).   Desika of course was well known to all of us, having born and brought up in the sampradaya, reciting some of his verses, celebrating, revering him. But, hardl...