[Advaita-l] Fw: Fwd: Ramana Maharshi - Advaitin or Neo Advaitin?

[Venkatraghavan S]

nice explanation!

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Raghav Kumar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> This is an old discussion i guess.
>
> I liked the following take which i heard from one shrotriya - well atleast
> he was teaching advaita siddhi to a few students. ;)
>
> He said that Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi was born a brahmin and had been
> initiated in to Gayatri and sandhya vandanam. In it are contained the
> sacred omkaara and the vyAhRti-s bhUH etc. As also the formal vedic
> initiation in to the  aikyAnusandhAnam viz., asAvAdityo brahma
> brahmaivAhamasmi.
>
> If the above aikyAnusandhAnam is not vedanta, thats news to me. In the
> Dialogues with the Guru also the same idea is expressed. The same Sun can
> be understood as just a ball of fire or as SaguNa brahman or nirguNa
> brahman based on the level of maturity. Since Bhagavan was an
> uttamAdhikArI, that omkara Gayatri japam with aikyAnusandhAnam was
> sufficient to trigger at the appropriate time the jnana vRtti.
>
> As for his pedagogy he may well have interacted with sAdhakas and shrotriya
> pandits and arrived at the best ways to teach those particular people who
> came to him requesting to be taught for example by translating Atmabodha,
> selected bhagavadgItA shlokas etc.
>
> There is no question of any divergence from the advaita tradition.
>
> Om
> Raghav
>
> On 19-Sep-2016 6:30 pm, "Kripa Shankar via Advaita-l" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >   Original Message
> > From: Kripa Shankar <kripa.shankar.0294 at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Monday 19 September 2016 6:29 PM
> > To: Sujal Upadhyay via Advaita-l; advaita-l
> > Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Fwd: Ramana Maharshi - Advaitin or Neo Advaitin?
> >
> > Sorry about that. I have some issues with my phone.
> > ‎
> >   Original Message
> > From: Sujal Upadhyay via Advaita-l
> > Sent: Monday 19 September 2016 6:25 PM
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> > Reply To: Sujal Upadhyay
> > Subject: [Advaita-l] Fwd: Ramana Maharshi - Advaitin or Neo Advaitin?
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Kripa Shankar <kripa.shankar.0294 at gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 6:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Ramana Maharshi - Advaitin or Neo Advaitin?
> > To: Sujal Upadhyay <sujal.u at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > Namaste Sujal
> >
> > ‎I had to quote from Wikipedia because there is no Ramana in any
> classical
> > texts nor does he belong to any lineage. We have to only believe what
> they
> > tell us. So Wikipedia is the pramana here :D ‎
> >
> > Original Message
> > From: Sujal Upadhyay
> > Sent: Monday 19 September 2016 5:52 PM
> > To: Kripa Shankar
> > Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Ramana Maharshi - Advaitin or Neo Advaitin?
> >
> > Namaste Sri Kripa ji,
> >
> > To understand Sri Ramana Maharshi, please read
> >
> > 1. biography
> > 2. His teachings - Who Am I
> > 3. Sat darshan chalisi (40 verses on Reality)
> > 4. Sri Ramana Gita
> > 5. His recommendations were Ribhu Gita and other similar texts like Yoga
> > Vasistha
> > 6. Read his teachings i.e. Q and A published by various authors.
> >
> > As I have said, please do not build your judgement from wikipedia :)
> >
> > OM
> > Sujal
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Kripa Shankar <
> > kripa.shankar.0294 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > Namaste Sujal ,
> >
> > ‎What is your comment on ‎ the Wikipedia passage that says Ramana's
> > teachings are different from Advaita
> >
> > Original Message
> > From: Sujal Upadhyay
> > Sent: Monday 19 September 2016 5:20 PM
> > To: Bhaskar YR; A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
> > Cc: Kripa Shankar
> > Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Ramana Maharshi - Advaitin or Neo Advaitin?
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