[Advaita-l] Govardhan mutt

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Namaste sir.
I understand what you are saying. There is no doubt that we are indebt to
swami vivekananda who has bought unparalleled fame to Hinduism. But we must
never forget lord Krishnas words in gita. The shastras alone have to be
taken as a pramana to decide what is right or wrong. If we ignore the
injunctions of shastra and act as per our own logic, cannot expect to grow
spiritually. Hence our shistas always talk in accordance to shastras only.

On Mon, 17 Oct, 2022, 9:16 pm Aravinda Rao, <karavind09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>> behalf
>>>> > of Aravind M via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>>>> > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2022 8:01:38 PM
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>>>> > Subject: [Advaita-l] Govardhan mutt
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