[Advaita-l] Fwd: Did an Advaitin plot to murder Ramanuja?

Venkatesh Murthy vmurthy36 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 8 04:15:00 EDT 2017


Namaste

निन्दा न समीचीना iti Saadhu.

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Venkatesh Murthy <vmurthy36 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste
>
> रामानुजानां विशिष्टाद्वैतमते भेदाभेदवादापेक्षया तावत् वैलक्षण्यं नास्ति
> अपितु विशिष्टाद्वैतमतस्य आधारस्तम्भेषु अन्यतमः भेदाभेदवाद एव। एवं सति
> यादवप्राकाशाः अद्वैतवादिनः इति केचित् रामानुजीयाः घोषयन्ति  इत्यत्र कोऽपि न
> विस्मयः । प्रायः भेदाभेदवादादेव नैकतत्त्वानि प्राप्य भेदाभेदवादबोधकगुरोः
> निन्दा न समीचीनम् इति मन्यन्ते ।
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 11:46 AM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> 2017-06-08 11:15 GMT+05:30 Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>:
>>
>> > Namaste
>> >
>> > यादवप्रकाशाः अद्वैतवेदान्तपण्डिताः इत्यपि प्रतीतिरेव स्यात् यतो हि ते
>> > भेदाभेदवादिनः आसन् इति उल्लेख: वर्तते अन्यत्र -
>> >
>> > http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/jan2001/0069.html
>> >
>> > 'It has also been speculated that he followed Mandana Misra's school of
>> > Advaita Vedanta. His philosophy, in reality, is a form of the
>> > Bhedabheda-vada.'
>> >
>>
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8Dana_Mi%C5%9Bra
>>
>> //According to Kuppuswami Sastri, it is not likely that Maṇḍana Miśra, the
>> author of *Brahmasiddhi*, is identical with Sureśvara, but the tradition
>> is
>> correct in describing Maṇḍana Miśra and Śankara as contemporaries.[3]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8Dana_Mi%
>> C5%9Bra#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKuppuswami_Sastri1984-3>
>> His
>> critical edition of the *Brahmasiddhi* also points out that the name
>> Maṇḍana Miśra is both a title and a first name, which is a possible cause
>> for a confusion of personalities.[3]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8Dana_Mi%
>> C5%9Bra#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKuppuswami_Sastri1984-3>
>> Maṇḍana
>> Miśra's brand of Advaita differs in certain critical details from that of
>> Śhankara, whereas Sureśvara's thought is very faithful to that of
>> Śhankara.
>> [3]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8Dana_Mi%
>> C5%9Bra#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKuppuswami_Sastri1984-3>
>> //
>>
>> In any case, Shankara refutes the bhedābheda doctrine in the BSB 2.1.14.
>> It
>> is interesting to note that this doctrine is associated with the following
>> names:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhedabheda
>>
>> //Other major names are Bhāskara
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara_(philosopher)> (8th and 9th
>> centuries),[1]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhedabheda#cite_note-IEPbheda-1>
>> Rāmānuja’s
>> teacher Yādavaprakāśa,[1]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhedabheda#cite_note-IEPbheda-1> and
>> Vijñānabhikṣu <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijnanabhiksu> (16th
>> century).
>> [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhedabheda#cite_note-IEPbheda-1>//
>>
>> It is necessary that concerted efforts should be made to give wide
>> publicity to the prevailing
>> erroneous idea and the malicious propaganda by  the Ramanuja school
>> linking Yadava
>> Prakasha to Advaita.
>>
>> regards
>> subrahmanian.v
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
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> -Venkatesh
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