[Advaita-l] Brahma satyam jagan mithya - in Gaudapada Kārikā

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 21:34:56 EST 2017


On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Durga Prasad Janaswamy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Hari Om
> Namaste.
>
> If a jnani says "Brahma satyam Jagan mithya",
> then does it not amount to 'Jnani has a bheda buddi'?
>

He can say that to teach others. As part of anusandhānam also he can invoke
such statements. Also, that statement is bheda-nindā or bheda-negation
specific and hence does not espouse bheda.



>
> Regards
> -- durga
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:02 AM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > I have heard that Bhaskara had openly proclaimed that his sole  objective
> > is to criticise Shankara. It appears that the first pejorative use of
> > 'maayaavaada/in was by him. How can he be called an advaitin? Also
> > Ramanujites distinguish Yadavaprakasha's school from Advaita. There is a
> > project to reconstruct this school from the various passages of the
> > Sribhashya.
> >
> > regards
> > vs
> > On Feb 22, 2017 3:21 PM, "H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l" <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Namaste Sri Venkatraghavan Ji,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Reg  << Please could you elaborate the basis by which one should
> consider
> > > bhesdAbheda vAdins such as BhAskara as advaitins? >>,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Let me clarify that I have made that statement based on such references
> > > being made by some authors like Sri Venkataramiah, not by my own study
> of
> > > Sri Bhaskara’s works. Sri SSS also in his work
> > वेदान्तप्रक्रियाप्रत्यभिज्ञा
> > > (vedAntaprakriyApratyabhij~nA) has covered the works of Sri Bhaskara
> > along
> > > with those of other advaitins like Sri Padmapada, Sri Vachaspati
> Mishra,
> > > Sri Ananda Bodha, Sri Chitsukhacharya etc. In his work “History of
> > Vedanta
> > > Vichara” in kannada, Sri SSS includes Sri Bhaskara along with other
> well
> > > known advaitins.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards
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