[Advaita-l] Fwd: Rama and Krishna are Jiva-s - Mahabharata

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Kalyanji,
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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Because the Mahabharata does not give scope for such an interpretation.
> The central theme of Mbh is that when dharma declines, Ishwara himself
> descends to earth to restore order.

​​M.Bh. is not the only source to know who Ishvara is.​​



> In Mbh, this Ishwara is Krishna. Shankara also gives a similar summary in
> his intro to gita bhashya.
>
Yet Shankara's definition of Ishvara is not Krishna known as Vasudeva putra
or even Vishnu sitting elsewhere in some heaven.

Vaishnavas might pray to Shiva. But I am pretty confident that Vishnu alone
> is the moksha giver for them.
>
> ​Note below​



> //On a related
>  matter, I do not know as to why those who call themselves as
>  Vedantins
> ​,​
> following Advaita Vedanta take to a non-Vedanta
>  source as having more authority in their
>  doctrine.//
>
> Not sure what you are trying to say here.
>

If that "giver of moksha" ​being Vishnu as some deity is established from
non-Upanishad source, then it cannot be called as Vedanta doctrine.

​gurupAdukAbhyAm
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--Praveen R. Bhat
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