{"id":215,"date":"2017-06-15T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/?page_id=215"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:42:22","slug":"chapter-6-dharma-when-protected-protects-us-dharma-and-liberation-in-the-hindu-traditions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/a-hundred-autumns-to-live\/chapter-6-dharma-when-protected-protects-us-dharma-and-liberation-in-the-hindu-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 6: \u201cDharma, when protected, protects us:\u201d Dharma and Liberation in the Hindu Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapter 6: \u201cDharma, when protected, protects us:\u201d Dharma and Liberation in the Hindu Traditions<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sannyasin of the Shankara line- leader of the Kanchipuram Matha<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/chapter6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/chapter6.jpg 556w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/chapter6-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/chapter6-200x288.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/chapter6-300x432.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">H.H. the senior acharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswati, of the Kanchipuram Shankara Matha.&lt;br \/&gt;Bangalore, 1984.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Women ascetics from Bengal, Saradeswari Ashram, Ganges, Michigan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1735\" height=\"1191\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch6-womenascetics.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch6-womenascetics.jpg 1735w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch6-womenascetics-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch6-womenascetics-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch6-womenascetics-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch6-womenascetics-200x137.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1735px) 100vw, 1735px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Women ascetics from Kolkota came for the consecration of the Mother&#8217;s Place at Ganges, Michigan.&lt;br \/&gt;Photo courtesy Professor Nancy Falk, Western Michigan University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":884,"featured_media":0,"parent":152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions\/872"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}