[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: BSB 2.1.14 ['Shankara is also at fault']

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 10:07 AM Kalyan <kalyanchakravarthy2021 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Sri Putran-ji, Namaskaaram
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> I wrote a message and lost it due to bad internet connection. :)
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>  तत्त्वान्यत्वाभ्यामनिर्वचनीये - something that cannot be determined to be
> "tattva" or अन्य (different from "tattva") - this is my understanding. I
> agree this matches the standard definition of mithya but I think the
> terminology used by later advaitins is sad-asad vilakshaNa. I could be
> right or wrong here. A search of advaita-sharada website can determine if
> Sri Shankara uses the second terminology, but this would purely be of
> academic interest.
>

Dear All,

The above remark - //A search of advaita-sharada website can determine if
Sri Shankara uses the second terminology, but this would purely be of
academic interest. //  is truly exploding.  While the 'post-Shankara
commentators/Advaita Acharyas have* introduced *several concepts and terms
that are *alien* to Shankaracharya, Gaudapadacharya and Sureshwaracharya
and thereby *corrupted the original shuddha shAnkara Advaita prakriyA'*,
the same allegation can be levelled against Shankara too by the
non-Advaitin schools.

There is a plethora of terms/concepts that are not present in the Prasthana
Traya that Shankara has introduced:  adhyAropa-apavAda, adhyAsa,
nirupadhika, sopadhika, avidyAdhyasta, avidyAkruta, jneya and upasya
brahma, krama-mukti, kevala/shuddha/nirguna chaitanya, satya/anruta,
pAramArthika/VyAvahArika/drShTanaShTa satya, rajju-sarpa, shukti-rajata,
marIchika, and so on.

By introducing such concepts/terms Shankara has corrupted the shuddha
aupanishada sampradaya taught by Veda Vyasa and the upanishads.

regards
subbu



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