[Advaita-l] Questions on mayavada

[Shyam]

"To be brief from every point of view that this Buddhist doctrine may be examined for finding out some justification, it breaks down like a well sunk in sand; and we do not find any the least logic here. Hence also all behavior based on the Buddhist scripture is unjustifiable. MOREOVER BuddhA exposed HIS OWN INCOHERENCE in talk when he instructed the three mutually contradictory theories of the existence of external objects, existence of consciousness and absolute nihilism; or he displayed HIS MALEVOLENCE (was malicious) towards all creatures, acting under the DELUSION that these creatures would get confused by imbibing contradictory views. The idea is that the Buddhist view should be abjured in every way by all who desire the highest good" 

Adi Sankara in His Sutra bhyashya.


Hari OM
Shri Gurbhyoh namah
Shyam

--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Questions on mayavada
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 11:38 AM
> Shri Shrikanta,
> 
> It is like the Vedantist today saying that Sankhya is wrong
> or Yoga is wrong, though these are not wrong and are valid
> within their scope and they do not go to the Vedantic level.
> So also Lord Buddha did not touch Vedanta as he was
> forbidden to teach it ,  yet out of sympathy for his
> advanced disciples he spoke about the concept of Shunyata. 
> Madam Blavatsky explained that.  Adi Sankaracharya and
> Gaudapada knew the truth. However most people today read a
> bit about Lord  Buddha and a bit about Vedanta and see the
> criticism of  what Dignaga and Dharmakirti said as the
> direct criticism of Lord Buddha. The people, who  
> criticise  Lord Buddha do not know that Lord Buddha told
> the highest truth without the argumentation of the Buddhist
> logicians.  Some  Brahmin priests could have been  up
> against Lord Buddha as Lord Buddha was against excess
> ritualism in the name of the Vedas and they propagated that
> Lord Buddha was against the Veda. It does not
>  get registered in thir grey matter that Lord Buddha said
> that he did not invent anything and that he only told what
> the ancient seers told. 
> 
> Now it is quite possible that you will surf the Internet
> and show your scholarship that you always knew all about
> what Blavatsky said  and that even your knowledge on
> Blavatsky is more than what I know.
> 
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
> 
> --- On Wed, 11/10/10, srikanta <srikanta at nie.ac.in>
> wrote:
> 
> From: srikanta <srikanta at nie.ac.in>
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Questions on mayavada
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 2:03 AM
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> You said  as follows:
> <<  .It is too childish to say that niether
> Gaudapada nor Shankara criticised
> Buddha<< <.
> Do you think your giving an assertion without substantiang
> it  is unchildish?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
> 
> Dear Sunil Bhattacharyaji,
> 
> I have given the gist of Gaudapada's arguments which says
> that vedanta is
> not Buddhism.Shankara's commentary follows that.If you say
> that neither
> Gaudapada or Shankara criticised Buddha,what else can I
> say.To understand
> that,you have to study Mandukya Upanishad and the Gaudapada
> karikas.If the
> arguments there must be followed.If you simply repeat what
> I said,what
> else is it?We are not indulging in vithandavada.
> Sincerely,                               
>             N.Srikanta.
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