[Advaita-l] Paul Hacker's erroneous view

[D Gayatri]

//A mere namesake does not demand a comparison//

I will leave it as your personal opinion.

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

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> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 10:37 PM, D Gayatri <dgayatrinov10 at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dgayatrinov10 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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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?//
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>> Because Shiva is Shankara's namesake. Sureshwara also says the same, that
>> Shankara bears the name of bhava (Shiva).
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> A mere namesake does not demand a comparison.
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>> On Saturday, 3 September 2016, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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>
>>> 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 to
>>>> > 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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