non-reality of free will

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Thu, 22 May 1997, Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:

> On Fri, 9 May 1997, Jonathan Bricklin wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > I take it that he does not agree with those
> > Hindu authorities who identify the Vivarana with Shankara.
> >
>
> I don't have Jonathan's original post any more, and this is excerpted from
> Jaldhar Vyas's recent response to it.
>
> A quick clarification. If the idea is that Vacaspati Misra's Tattva
> Vaisharadi belongs to the Vivarana school, that is wrong on two counts,
> the first being that the text is a work on Yoga.
>

I believe the previous poster was referring to the Yoga Sutra Vivarana
allegedly composed by Shankaracharya.  Even if you accept this, any
relationship to the Tattvavaishradi is spurious for the reasons you
mention in the rest of your post.

-- Jaldhar