[Advaita-l] Fw: Bhakti and Jnana

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Ha ha good imagination indeed.


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 From: Rajaram Venkataramani <rajaramvenk at gmail.com>
To: Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>; A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> 
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Bhakti and Jnana
 

Have you considered the possibility that Madhusudana is from south India based on his preoccupation with Madhwas and Sri Vaishnavas?

On Sunday, February 19, 2012, Sunil Bhattacharjya  wrote:

I understand that the background is important as Lord Krishna himself says a yogi is born in a family of Yogis. If you think that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's ideas could not have influenced Kamalajanayana even temporarily,then  may be we should  agree to disagree on this point.
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> From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
>To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
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>Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Fw: Bhakti and Jnana
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>On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Sunil Bhattacharjya wrote:
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>> Are you aware of Mahapurush Sankardeva, the great Assamese Advaitin Vaishnavite saint of that time, who wrote many works including the Bhakti Ratnakar?
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>I have heard of him but I'm not familiar with his teachings certainly not that he was an Advaitin.  What makes you say that?
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>> There was also another saint Vishupuri sanyashi of varanasi at that time.  who wrote Bhakti Ratnavali.
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>Varanasi is considerably far away from Navadvipa.
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>> To tell you the fact that at time the entire North-east India was Charged with Vaishnava movement, both Advaitic and Bheda-Bheda. Any assessment of the thoughts of that time has to recognize all these influences.
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>I thought you are making a stronger claim, namely that MS was doctrinally influenced by the Gaudiya school.  To say that there was merely a vaishnavish background is another thing.
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