[Advaita-l] Question on Mayavada

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Pranams,

By the grace of Lord Buddha and Lord Krishna , who are both one and the same, I guess I understand what both of them said. In case you would like to talk to Dr. Rao and find out something new other than what I have said you are most welcome to do so and kindly let us know. You may even invite Dr. Rao to join this forum unless he finds the levels of our discussions low and below his expectations. BTW is there any
 publication of Dr. Rao on Buddhism?

After extensive research Madam Blavatsky came to the conclusion that Lord Buddha was under an oath not to impart the teachings of the Veda and and Vedanta. Yet he being most compassionate wanted to spill out his knowledge indirectly in a somewhat unorthodox way without telling about Brahman, inspite of some of his disciples pressing him to open his mouth on that. Lord Buddha's teachings are the logical extensions of Sankhya and Yoga and wasfrom the realm of Vedanta but he had to stop sort of letting out everything. In fact it is known that Lord Buddha was reluctant to speak from the time of his awakening as it is difficult to teach Dharma to ones filled with lust and hate. Control over desire has to be achieved for the progress in the path of Dharma. So he first gave the basic teachings in Sarnath and twenty two years later he gave the Mahayana teachings. He gave further teachings at a later date. Let us not talk about these here as that would mean
 moving away from the main theme of the group. Lord Krishna did not have any such
 compulsion and he even showed his Vishwaroopa to Arjuna as part of the discourse. Comapassion forces people to do things like Lord Buddha did. We have a similar thing in the life of Ramanujacharya. Ramanujacharya was given a mantra by his guru and was asked to keep it to himself, but he let the world know the mantra from his rooftop so that everybody gets the benefit of the mantra. It is, of course, another matter that the Guru's giving a particular mantra to a particular disciple has many connotations.

Warm regards,

Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

--- On Tue, 12/14/10, Ramamurthy Venkateswaran <r_venkateswaran at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Ramamurthy Venkateswaran <r_venkateswaran at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Question on Mayavada
To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
Date: Tuesday,
 December 14, 2010, 4:12 AM


Pranams
 
Dear Shri Bhattacharji,
 
Some time ago you wanted to know the email id of Professor C Upendra Rao, JNU, a scholar well versed in Buddhist Prakriti philosophy.  Dr. Rao's email ID is:skt.scholar at gmail.com and upendra at mail.jnu.ac.in.  You may pose the issues to him for clarify and resolution.
 
With best personal regards,
 
Sincerely,




R. VENKATESWARAN
A-706, C-DOT Apartments
Sector 56, Gurgaon 1220011
Phone: 0124-4221139; Mobile: 0 9899843321
(From October 21, 2010 - February 28, 2011)

 
R. Venkateswaran 
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Kaggadaspura, 6th E Cross
Bangalore-560093
Phone: 080-41676511; M: 0 96638 57781)
email: r_venkateswaran at hotmail.com
 (upto October 20, 2010)
 



 

> Date: Tue, 7 Dec
 2010 22:26:10 -0800
> From: sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Question on Mayavada
> 
> I agree in that Buddha talks about Nirvana but the  Advaitin talks about Brahmanirvana (Brahmani nivritti)
> 
> Sunil k. Bhattacharjya
> 
> --- On Tue, 12/7/10, Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com> wrote:
> 
>
 From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Question on Mayavada
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 9:30 PM
> 
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Sunil Bhattacharjya wrote:
> 
> > Dear Jaldharji,
> > 
> > Well put. May I add that In Mahayana when one gets out of the clutch of Prakriti (ieone sheds / leaves the body of the five skandhas ) one gets the state of Zero-Identity or Shunyata, where there is no individual identity and there is only awareness and no separateness. This means that though the individual identity is lost, a non-separate awareness remains. Shall I be
 wrong if I say that many see there some similarity between the Advaita and Buddhism.
> 
> You shall.  The buddhists are resolutely agnostic about the nature of that awareness.  Vedantins of any stripe including Advaitins refer to Brahman in positive terms as an entity that can be objectively known.  Or in other words, goal of oneness in Buddhism = emptyness.  Goal of oneness in Advaita Vedanta = fullness.  This is a vast difference that renders any other superficial similarities meaningless.
> 
> -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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