[Advaita-l] Fwd: Did an Advaitin plot to murder Ramanuja?

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

One unfortunate side-effect of the way such stories have been preserved and
transmitted is that their political motivations make it very difficult to
make objective judgments about the historical facts.

Numerous secondary citations available from various viSishTAdvaita and
dvaita authors, that show yAdavaprakASa to have been a proponent of a kind
of bhedAbheda that aligned with brahma-pariNAma vAda, viewing cit, acit and
ISvara as attributes of or as powers of brahman. This is not an advaita
view at all, but rather, it can been seen as a precursor to Ramanuja's own
more view of cit and acit as attributes of Narayana in an inseparable
fashion (apRthak-siddhi).

Nevertheless, it seems to be more convenient for most people to repeat the
story that yAdavaprakASa was an advaitin!

Vidyasankar

2017-06-08 1:45 GMT-04:00 Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>:

> Namaste
>
> यादवप्रकाशाः अद्वैतवेदान्तपण्डिताः इत्यपि प्रतीतिरेव स्यात् यतो हि ते
> भेदाभेदवादिनः आसन् इति उल्लेख: वर्तते अन्यत्र -
>
> http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/jan2001/0069.html
>
> 'It has also been speculated that he followed Mandana Misra's school of
> Advaita Vedanta. His philosophy, in reality, is a form of the
> Bhedabheda-vada.'
>
> 2017-06-08 10:45 GMT+05:30 Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l <
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> > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > > एते रामानुजानां विषये ईर्ष्यां प्राप्य
> > > रामानुजान् मारयितुं प्रयतितवन्तः इति प्रतीतिः वर्तते ।
> >
> >
> > ​प्रतीतिरेव वर्तते न तु सत्यम्। :)
> >
> > Kind rgds,
> > --Praveen R. Bhat
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