[Advaita-l] The 'Snake-and-ladder' game - The Spiritual path

[V Subrahmanian]

http://talkandcomment.com/p/3b40f7c58b6be9c48a940ba0 (voice note)

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:15 AM Aditya Kumar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> I partly agree with you. However Ramana himself is/was a liberal
> practitioner. Basically he is saying that he approached the whole Hindu
> concept of Moksha through personal experience and not by scriptural
> authority. In that sense, the practicality of such personal experience
> would be similar to all religions, to all cultures etc because you need not
> put faith on validity of scriptures at all. Hence they claim it is non
> dogmatic as it is experiential knowledge and not something derived from
> some scriptures.  However there is a whole other debate whether Advaitic
> Moksha is experiential or cognitive. Further, a Hindu will always claim the
> ShAstra yOnitvat of the Advaitic truth, hence binding into a religious
> belief.
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> On Fri, 10/8/18, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula <raghavkumar00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] The 'Snake-and-ladder' game - The Spiritual path
>  To: "Aditya Kumar" <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com>, "A discussion group for
> Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>  Date: Friday, 10 August, 2018, 4:17 AM
>
>  No one has any
>  issues with giving advaitic interpretations to selected
>  statements such as "The kingdom of heaven is within you
>  " or "anaa al haqq" etc etc. But that can
>  hardly amount to "endorsing  Christianity," with
>  all its the central dogmas of those texts. Also we have such
>  interpretations are endorsed by only a very small  liberal
>  section of practitioners of those traditions. They are only
>  a advaitic Hindu interpretation of the Bible rather than a
>  Christian interpretation of that very text. In fact we will
>  be able to see occasional shades of Advaita in so many
>  places and can empathise with those. What of that? That does
>  not mean Sri Ramana puts all religious views on the same
>  level.
>
>
>  On Fri 10
>  Aug, 2018, 9:21 AM Aditya Kumar via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>  wrote:
>  Even
>  Ramana Maharshi has no issues with christianity. In fact he
>  endorses it because the Advaitic concept is beautifully
>  explained in the Bible. Pls see link below :
>
>
>
>  http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/forum/index.php?topic=5060.0
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>  On Thu, 9/8/18, Kalyan via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> >
>  wrote:
>
>
>
>   Subject: [Advaita-l]  The 'Snake-and-ladder' game
>  - The Spiritual path
>
>   To: "A. Discussion Group for Advaita Vedanta"
>  <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>
>   Cc: "Kalyan" <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com>
>
>   Date: Thursday, 9 August, 2018, 8:09 PM
>
>
>
>   More here on other religions from Sringeri
>
>   guru -
>
>   http://svbf.org/thought-of-the-day
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>      - Similarly a seeker should
>
>   apply his God given gifts on the stable background of
>  his
>
>   God chosen faith. So a Hindu should try to become a
>  better
>
>   Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Buddhist a better
>
>   Buddhist and a Christian a better Christian. –
>
>   Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswamigal
>
>      - Who are we to sit in
>
>   judgement over other religious teachers and religions?
>  Waste
>
>   not your precious life in judging others. Use it to
>  regulate
>
>   your life and purify yourself. – Chandrasekhara
>  Bharati
>
>   Mahaswamigal
>
>      - There must be perfect
>
>   equality – each man to his religion – unmolested by
>
>   anybody and every facility guaranteed to him to practice
>  his
>
>   own religious pursuit. – Chandrasekhara Bharati
>
>   Mahaswamigal
>
>      - Every facility must be given
>
>   for a Hindu to live the life of a Hindu, a Muslim to
>  live
>
>   the life of a Muslim, a Christian the life of a
>  Christian,
>
>   and so on. – Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswamigal
>
>      - No one on earth, howsoever
>
>   powerful, has any right to compel the people to change
>  or
>
>   break their religious laws. No one has the right to
>
>   interfere in the religious matters of another. –
>
>   Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswamigal
>
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