[Advaita-l] Debunking Drishti-Srishti Vada and Eka Jiva Vada - part 1

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Aditya Kumar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> That's interesting. Thanks. In my humble opinion, this weakens the case
> for DSV/DSP. Although I wonder how DSV is much preferable for Upasana, when
> Tat Tvam Asi itself is difficult to accommodate. Not just that, there is no
> role for Ishwara in DSV and so the aspirant has to do upasana on his/her
> own self. Whether the upasana is on Eka Jiva or Eka Atma, probably each to
> their own!
>

Oh, another bout of confusion: On the one hand you aver that Madhusudana
has advocated a distinct bhakti marga differing thereby from Shankara and
on the other you also complain that MS has proposed an un-Shankaran DSV. If
DSV has no room for Ishwara, how does this gel with MS's bhakti marga?


vs

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>       From: H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
> vedanta.org>
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> Cc: H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
>  Sent: Saturday, 22 July 2017 2:49 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Debunking Drishti-Srishti Vada and Eka Jiva Vada
> - part 1
>
> It was pointed out to me that my citation from Anubhutiprakasha is
> incomplete. Hence I am adding the next verse also to complete the same.
>
>
>
> Verses 47 and 48, chapter 9
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>
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> <<महासृष्ट्या  तत्पदार्थमादौ  ज्ञात्वा  ततः  पुनः ।  त्वंपदार्थं शोधित्वा
> वाक्याद्  बोधो  विलम्बते ।
>
> तस्मादिहाऽजातशत्रुर्बालाकेरविलम्बतः ।  प्रत्यग्ब्रह्मात्वबोधार्थं
> दृष्टिसृष्टिमवोचत ।  >>
>
>
>
> << mahAsRRiShTyA  tatpadArthamAdau  j~nAtvA  tataH  punaH |  tvaMpadArthaM
> shodhitvA  vAkyAd  bodho  vilambate |
>
>
>
> tasmAdihA.ajAtashatrurbAlAkeravilambataH |  pratyagbrahmAtvabodhArthaM
> dRRiShTisRRiShTimavochata |  >>
>
>
>
> Clearly, Swami Vidyaranya does not consider  << तत्वमसि (tatvamasi) >> as
> the appropriate mahAvAkya for his version of DSP.
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> Regards
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