[Advaita-l] 'Buddha is not an Avatara of Vishnu' - An article in Kannada

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 8:54 AM kuntimaddi sadananda <
kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Subbuji - PraNAms
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> Everybody is an avatar of Vishnu - the very first name in the
> Vishnusahasranaamaavali is - viswam. The whole universe is Vishnu.
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Pranams Sada ji,

Very nicely stated. Shankara says in the Brahma sutra bhashya 2.2.44:

Not just the four (Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, the
entire universe from Brahmaa to the smallest creature, is the vyuuha,
manifestation, of Brahman as per the Veda.

न चैते भगवद्व्यूहाश्चतुःसंख्यायामेवावतिष्ठेरन् , ब्रह्मादिस्तम्बपर्यन्तस्य
समस्तस्यैव जगतो भगवद्व्यूहत्वावगमात् ॥ ४४ ॥

warm regards
subbu



> And the second name is Vishnu - vyaapakatvaat - who pervades the whole
> universe as the very substratum. However, we revere those avatars who
> devoted themselves not only to realize the above truth but to try to uplift
> the society at large. We do not follow the teachings of Buddha since some
> of the teachings are not in-tune with Vedanta.
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> Hari Om!
> Sadananda
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