Sri: Srimathe Ramanujaya nama: Dear Smt Sumithra, Accept my pranams. AcAryAs can be scholars too. And scholars can be AcAryAs too! For example HH Chinna JIyar is an AcAryA and he is a ubhaya vEdhAnthi(scholar). He does samAshrayaNam for many. Swami Sri MA Venkatakrishnan is a PhD scholar(Professor in Religion) who gives upanyAsam etc. He also comes under the lineage of one of the 74 AcArya puruShAs. So he can do samAshrayaNam for others. So,let us not use the English word scholar. AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam NC Nappinnai > That's a good question. As per adiyen's understanding, in our > sampradayam, the word acharya refers to "Oran vazhi acharya > purushas" who are eligible to do samasrayanam. Scholars are those > who are well versed in ubhaya vedantham but not eligible to do > samasrayanam they can only educate us.
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