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ADVAITA-L FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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FAQ 1: What are the List policies?
FAQ 2: Where are the archives of the list?
How can I access them ?
FAQ 3: Is there a FAQ on advaita-vedAnta?
FAQ 4: How do I find out what are my present options?
FAQ 5: How do I change my status to DIGEST form and viceversa?
FAQ 6: How do I unsubscribe from the list?
FAQ 7: How do I temporarily stop mail from Advaita-L
FAQ 8: How do I get more help?
FAQ 9: Removal from Advaita-l due to mail delivery errors
FAQ 10: No HTML and binary files
FAQ 11: Additional information
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FAQ 1: What are the List policies?
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LIST POLICIES
1) Advaita-L is a open, unmoderated list to discuss advaita-vedanta as
taught by shrI shankara. By advaita-vedanta, the tradition established
by shrI shankara and the maThas created to is referred.
2) Even though the major emphasis is on advaita-vedanta taught by shrI
shankara, topics related advaita-vedanta are welcome. Purpose of other
related articles should be to aid the understanding of
advaita-vedanta.
3) Articles promoting bhakti within the framework of vedAnta are most
welcome. The articles should be acceptable to the framework of
advaita-vedanta. Even though advaita-vedanta holds that liberation
is through AtmajnAnam, bhakti is always emphasized.
4) Items 2 and 3 are vague, as the maintainers of the List, We reserve
the right on acceptability of articles. In the case the articles are
unacceptable, it will be informed in private and resolved in private.
5) Discussion of nAstika traditions and their philosophies are not
allowed. By nAstika traditions, traditions like buddhism and
jainism are meant . But scholarly articles comparing these traditions
with advaita-vedanta will be accepted. These articles should be sent to
the list administrators and not to the list.
6) Posters should not be disrespectful to towards saints and sages of
other traditions, and should show respect towards each other as well.
7) Administrators of the list reserve the final word on issues like
acceptability of posts. These decisions will be based on the list
scope. In case of doubt, knowledgeable members of the list will be
consulted.
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FAQ 2: Where are the archives of the list? How can I access them
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There are two ways to access the archives. Easiest way is to use the
WWW interface. To do that point your Web browser to
http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l.html At present
there is no search facility (Listserv Lite does not come with a search
engine).
The second method is to use the GET command. This method is very
useful when you want download the messages say for a month and print
them. For this send a mail to listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org and in the
body of the message
INDEX ADVAITA-L
As a response to this LISTSERV will return you the index of all the
files. The archives is in weekly format. Say I want to get the file
LOG9605C ( 3rd week of 5th month of 1996). Then send a mail to
listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org with the body of the message containing
GET ADVAITA-L LOG9605C
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FAQ 3: Is there a FAQ on advaita-vedAnta?
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There is an excellent FAQ on advaita-vedAnta authored by shrI
Vidyasankar Sundaresan. You can access the FAQ from
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/ad_faq.html
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FAQ 4: How do I find out what are my present options?
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All such requests should be sent to the
listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org and not to the list itself.
To find out what your options are
send a mail to listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org with body of the message
containing the following command.
QUERY ADVAITA-L
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FAQ 5: How do I change my status to DIGEST form and viceversa?
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All such "changing options" request should be sent to the
listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org and not to the list itself.
To change to digest mode, please send a mail to
listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org with body of the message containing
SET ADVAITA-L DIGEST
To revert back to regular form, send a mail to
listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org with body of the message containing
SET ADVAITA-L NODIGEST
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FAQ 6: How do I unsubscribe from the list?
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Send a mail to listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org with
body of the message containing
SIGNOFF ADVAITA-L
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FAQ 7: How do I temporarily stop mail from Advaita-L
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Send a mail to listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org with
body of the message containing
SET ADVAITA-L NOMAIL
This is a very good option to stop the mail temporarily when you go
out of town, etc. When you are back, send a mail again to
listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org with body of the message containing
SET ADVAITA-L MAIL
Please use the NOMAIL option when you go out of town. Do not use
auto-reply as it may end up flooding the mail box of the members.
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FAQ 8: How do I get more help?
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Or you can read a good manual from
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
or http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/cgi-bin/wa
Or you can send a mail to
listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
with body of the message containing the command
HELP
Or you can send a mail to listmaster at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
In case the listserv is down, you may want to directly contact the
list managers of advaita-l. The e-mail addresses of the present list
managers are
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
Vaidya Sundaram <Vaidya_Sundaram at i2.com>
Ravi Mayavarm <msr at comco.com>
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FAQ 9: Removal from Advaita-l due to mail delivery errors
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The way the LIST has be set up is, if there are mail
delivery problems to your address, after the tolerance level, the
List Server software will automatically delete your name. The
tolerance level is: error for 20 consecutive messages or 4 days,
whichever happens first.
In case you are not receiving any mail for few days, please check
the Archive Web site. If the WWW site shows messages on those
days, please contact me, I will add you back to the list. This
has happened once or twice in the past.
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FAQ 10: No HTML and binary files
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Archives at present cannot handle HTML formatted messages and binary files
like gif/jpeg etc. Please send only plain text messages to the list.
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FAQ 11: Additional information
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Support for advaita-L is provided by Jaldhar H. Vyas
(jaldhar at braincells.com)and it is hosted on his machine. The Listserv
Lite software is used for running the list.
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>From Wed Jul 14 10:29:19 1999
Message-Id: <WED.14.JUL.1999.102919.0400.>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:29:19 -0400
Reply-To: achandra at wnmail.wndev.att.com
To: List for advaita vedanta as taught by Shri Shankara
<ADVAITA-L at LISTS.ADVAITA-VEDANTA.ORG>
From: Ashish Chandra <achandra at WNMAIL.WNDEV.ATT.COM>
Subject: Re: Sri Sankara's BGB 15.13
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Dear Ravi,
Could you possibly provide the translation of Paramhansa Yogananda.
Thanks
Ashish
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From: List for advaita vedanta as taught by Shri Shankara
[mailto:ADVAITA-L at LISTS.ADVAITA-VEDANTA.ORG] On Behalf Of Ravisankar S.
Mayavaram
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 9:46 AM
To: ADVAITA-L at LISTS.ADVAITA-VEDANTA.ORG
Subject: Re: Sri Sankara's BGB 15.13
namaste
There is a detailed explanation for this verse in shrI paramahansa
yogAnanda's commentary on shrImad bhagavad gIta. I find svAmi
yogAnanda's commentary very fascinating and one of the best (and quite
unique). Please refer to that. You may find the complete bibliographic
record of the book at this site,
http://www.yogananda-srf.org/catalog/gita.html
Thank you.
Ravi