[Advaita-l] Supremacy of Shiva over Vishnu

[Ravi Kiran]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Unfortunately even the arguments classified as affirmative are specious
> too. Classifying Shankaracharya's vision as Vaishnava or Shaiva based on
> stray quotations is missing the wood for the trees.
>
> The tAtparya of his bhAshyas is very clear - that the one, limitless
> nirguNa Brahman is the highest reality established in the Upanishads, and
> the understanding of oneself to be that reality is the highest, most
> glorious goal worth striving for.
>

So True, it is rather very unfortunate that instead of focusing the
discussions on the Sruti / bhAshya tAtparya which will lead us to the goal
promised in the Upanishads, the discussions tends to
distract/deviate/mislead by investing much reality into vyavahArikaa (
which could well be hethvAbhAsa) and terming it as advaita, which does not
take one, anywhere near to the Sruti tAtparya,  but, well into anAdi avidyA
parampara..


>
> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
>
> On 1 Sep 2016 8:39 p.m., "Gerald Penn via Advaita-l" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> >
> > That's what I had thought, but I was <listmaster at advaita-vedanta.org>
>