[Advaita-l] Bhakti and Jnana

[Rajaram Venkataramani]

Dr. Sanjukta Gupta has among others. It is in her famous book on
Madhusudana.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I understand that Madhusudana Saraswati lived long. Has anybody
> investigated his writings in the chronological order? I mean which was his
> first book and which was his last and the differences if any in his
> thinking at different periods in his life. Did he, if at all, think about
> bringing in any innovativeness/innovation to the classical advaita of Adi
> Sankara and Gaudapada, which is based on Vedanta (can we say beyond the
> Veda)?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil KB
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Venkata sriram P <venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:02 AM
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Bhakti and Jnana
>
> Namaste,
>
> /////
>
> Rajaram: Dr. Sanjukta's view, "Neither bhakti nor jnanam are sublated in
> Brahman. What we see (or experience) is a reflection of pure bliss which is
> the svarupa of bhakti and jnana. And the reflection is non-different from
> the original as per the bimba-pratibimba vada.
>
> //
>
> IMO, the above view of Dr. Sanjukta on Shri Madhusudana is correct.  As
> per MS, the sthAyee bhAva of bhakti rasa is "Ananda" and He equates this
> with upaniSad vAkya "rasO vai rasaH"
>
> regs,
> sriram
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