[Advaita-l] Govardhan mutt

[Aravinda Rao]

Dear Kaushik ji,
I too was not convinced by the logic in  the apashudradhikaranam, but I too
am a brahmin. I am not a woke brahmin but a sincere student of advaita. I
do observe the forces in
history and I believe that the contribution of Vivekananda was
unparalleled in modern times. But for his forceful presentation, the Hindu
point of view would not have been taken note of. The greatness of
Upanishads became known to the educated Hindus because of these new swamis
and but for them, I think, Hinduism would have been dismissed by the
non-brahmin elite in India itself, resulting in cataclysmic changes in
society.
It is true that even prior to Vivekananda the American thinkers were fully
aware of the Gita and the Upanishads. They were known as the Boston
Brahmins. But with all that, the philosophical doctrine of Hinduism could
have been absorbed or 'digested' (to use the phrase of Rajiv Malhotra) by
the western thinkers/academics. Even today it is the English-knowing swamis
of various schools who are actively propagating Advaita to our own Hindu
diaspora. I do have respect for all of the traditional swamis for a lot of
good work being done in a different direction, that is, preserving the
shastra tradition.
Aravinda Rao

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 8:57 PM Kaushik Chevendra <
chevendrakaushik at gmail.com> wrote:

> The "rk mission" was established by Swami Vivekananda. He has criticised
> shankaracharya in his works regarding the apashudradhikarana. Also he is
> well known to eat beef when he visited USA. I don't see how we can consider
> "rk mission" as a authentic advaitic parampara when the jagadguru himself
> is criticized by them. They have no following of vidhi or vidhana. Neither
> do they abide by the rules specified by Shankaracharya. While having the
> stamp of Neo-advaita, lord knows what they preach.
>
> On Mon, 17 Oct, 2022, 8:51 pm Aravinda Rao, <karavind09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It is very unfortunate that our traditionalists are not living the spirit
>> of Advaita and also not seeing the social change. Are they dismissive of
>> the RK mission and Chinmaya mission too?
>> Aravinda Rao
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 8:22 PM Kaushik Chevendra via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Namaste sir.
>>> What is the contention about?
>>>
>>> On Mon, 17 Oct, 2022, 8:20 pm VTCS Rao via Advaita-l, <
>>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I don't think whatever this swami is worth translating.
>>> >
>>> > Before being critical, this Swami should understand and digest what us
>>> > conveyed through Manisha panchakam. So sad disappointed to see such
>>> > sanyasis commenting and challenging Sringeri math.
>>> >
>>> > Best Regards/  VTCS
>>> >
>>> > VTCS Rao, Dean L&T IPM
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