[Advaita-l] Paul Hacker's erroneous view

[D Gayatri]

//But why at all Padmapada engages in a comparison, even though it is a
contrast, between Shankara his guru and Paramashiva of all gods, who has
nothing to do with Shankaracharya, a vaishnava, according to you and Paul
Hacker?//

Because Shiva is Shankara's namesake. Sureshwara also says the same, that
Shankara bears the name of bhava (Shiva).


On Saturday, 3 September 2016, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 7:03 PM, D Gayatri <dgayatrinov10 at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dgayatrinov10 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>> > The very comparison by Padmapada arises only because of the fact that he
>> > believed that Shankara was Shiva avatara. Otherwise there is no reason
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>> > make that comparison for the mere name being Shankara.
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>> PadmapAda's comparison is in fact differentiating Shankara from Shiva.
>> Therefore Padmapada most certainly does not consider Shankara as an
>> incarnation of Shiva, because (Adi) Shankara is without bhasma,
>> without Uma, without Vinayaka, without snakes etc. PadmapAda's verses
>> can be interpreted to have two meanings.
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> But why at all Padmapada engages in a comparison, even though it is a
> contrast, between Shankara his guru and Paramashiva of all gods, who has
> nothing to do with Shankaracharya, a vaishnava, according to you and Paul
> Hacker? Only if this question is answered there can be any meaning in what
> you proceed to conjecture below. A mere name does not demand a
> compare-contrast.
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