{"id":8292,"date":"2009-09-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/29\/youtube-has-false-shankaracharyas\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:00:00","slug":"youtube-has-false-shankaracharyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/29\/youtube-has-false-shankaracharyas\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Has False &#8216;Shankaracharyas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/india\/Embrace-Islam-say-YouTube-Shankaracharyas\/Article1-457328.aspx\">www.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VARANASI, INDIA, September 23, 2009: The likely successor to the Shankaracharya of northern and western India is very angry at popular web portal YouTube showing video clips of two &#8216;fake&#8217; Shankaracharyas, one of who exhorts viewers to embrace Islam and the other explains why he converted to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>He is so enraged that he has decided to seek the intervention of President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh &#8220;on this burning issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re also seeking the opinion of experts to proceed legally against the web portal for featuring these video clips which are bound to hurt Hindu sentiments across the world,&#8221; Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati of the Jyotishpeeth and Shardapeeth told the Hindustan Times here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>One clip shows an old man holding the signature stick of the first Shankaracharya going by the name and title of &#8216;Devanand Saraswati, Jagatguru Shankaracharya.&#8217; He says in Hindi that Islam is the greatest religion in the world and that the first verse of the Quran should motivate Hindus to convert to Islam. <\/p>\n<p>Swami Avimukteshwaranand said Hindus all over the world recognise only three Shankaracharyas who head the four peeths or religious centres established by the first or Adi Shankaracharya in 500 BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hindustantimes.com VARANASI, INDIA, September 23, 2009: The likely successor to the Shankaracharya of northern and western India is very,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}