Kanchipuram: Auditor S Gurumurthy pay his last respects to Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, the 69th pontiff of the Kanchi Mutt, in Kanchipuram on Wednesday. PTI .

The ‘abishekam’, held in the main hall of the mutt, was followed by recital of Vedic hymns by priests in the presence of Sri Vijayendra Saraswathi, the junior pontiff of the Mutt.

A Mutt official said the body of Jayendra Saraswathi was carried later to the adjacent ‘Brindavan Annexe,’ where the mortal remains of his predecessor Sri Chandrasekerendra Saraswathi were interred in 1993.

The rituals for lowering his body in the 7×7 feet burial pit in the Brindhavanam Annexe was completed to inter the divine mortal remains of Sri Jayaendra Saraswathi.

Read also: Kanchi seer Sri Jayendra Saraswathi laid to rest —TOI.

Under the filthy politics of most perverted and corrupted politician of the age and the crooked lady and the the then CM of Tamil Nadu, Jayaram Jayalalithaa, the Kanchi Seer was named in Shankar Raman Murder Case. The Shankaracharya was among those charged in a 2004 murder of a Kanchipuram temple employee. Sankara Raman was found murdered within the Kanchi temple premises in September 2003. On November 11, 2003, on Diwali day, Jayendra Saraswathi was arrested from Mahbubnagar in Andhra Pradesh when he was performing his Chaturmasya Vrata Palaniyam.  After two months in jail he got bail. In 2013, he and 22 others were cleared of the charges and the conspiracy against the most revered seer of Hindus was exposed well.

During his time as the Kanchi head seer, Jayendra Saraswathi launched several charity initiatives such as the ‘Jana Kalyan, Jana Jagaran,’ a movement to “serve the people and awaken the masses”.

Read also: Rationalists too condole death of Kanchi Shankaracharya —TOI.

The charity programme aimed to establish temples in Dalit colonies and engage Dalits in temple rituals to expand the Hindu collective beyond the Dravidian polity’s anti-upper caste stance, and equating Hinduism with an inherent suspicion of Brahminism. He also appointed Dalit trustees in temples such as Mylapore Kapaleeshwarar.

Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi also played a key role in the Ram Janmabjoomi Temple Movement around the years and to vanish the disputed Babri Structure in 1992. He also promoted anti-conversion movement in the south and reconverted many Hindus who were converted to Islam in Meenakshipuram in the year 1981.

Jayendra Saraswathi is regarded as one of the most influential spiritual leaders of his time. He had close connection with Vishwa Hindu Parishad and many other Hindu bodies. 

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__Inputs from PTI/ Courtesy: The TOI  links used above.

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