[Advaita-l] Only a Vedantin can express these words of wisdom

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 9:14 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Subbu ji
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> That is indeed well-put. Advaita Vedanta fosters accommodating all human
> beings, even while objectively recognising the limitations in various
> theologies and belief systems.
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> What is the reason for the following?
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> The Indian dualism (like Sri Madhva's theology) is no less fanatical and
> theologically obsessed as non-Indian origin dualistic systems like Islam
> and Christianity. Yet the Indian dvaita systems (thankfully) do not have a
> bloody record of violence and persecution of fellow human beings purely due
> to their religious beliefs, the way bloodthirsty jihads and crusades have
> been the norm in Islam and Christianity? What is the cause of this almost
> bovine pacifism of Indian dualism in contrast to the carnivorous appetite
> of the predatory religions - although both these types are intellectually
> strongly sectarian?
>

Thank you Raghav ji.  Although the 'crusade', 'jihad' mode of treating the
opponents are not there in the Vedic sectarians, a slightly different mode
of these has been adopted by them: Those who do not hold their deity,
Vishnu, to be the supreme, are taamasic, those deities themselves are
taamasic, much below the only highly Sattvic Vishnu, and are destined to
hell, andha tamas, etc. Hence for them Shankaracharya too is an asura,
paapi, deserving such a hell along with his followers.

regards
subbu


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