[Advaita-l] Abedha

Srinath Vedagarbha svedagarbha at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 16:53:04 EDT 2020


On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 8:26 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula <
raghavkumar00 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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> On Wed, 12 Aug, 2020, 1:48 AM Srinath Vedagarbha, <svedagarbha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 2:22 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>>> One of the striking similarities between Indian Dvaita and Christianity
>>> and
>>> Islam is that they share a common belief that all those who do not
>>> subscribe to their particular theology get eternal damnation in hell.
>>>
>>
>> "Belief" ?  Didn't I quote so many shruti/itihAsa take on this issue?
>> There is nothing in your argument except superficially comparing vEdic
>> darshana with abrahmaic schools.
>>
>> /sv
>>
> The similarity itself is a simple statement of fact. It's not the
> argument.
>

Thank you for agreeing yours is not an argument.


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> The argument (nyAya) came in the last para. The nyAya stands because there
> is no counterexample of something that has parts and yet is 'eternal'.
>

The hEtu  sAvayavatvAt anityatvaM is quite evident it is based on
pratyaksha. What about shruti hEtu "bR^ihanto hi yasmin.h guNAH" for the
laxaNa of Brahman?  Are you going to deny Brahman just because there exists
nAnatva of guNas?  Flaw in the "argument" is quite evident. Applying hEtu,
which was derived from pratyaksha, on to the paxa which is known only
through aagama. That is vyabhichArAnumAna in my humble opinion.

Also, your assumption of existence of boiling oil etc in eternal
andhatamas is unprecedented

/sv


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