[Advaita-l] Prayers for health, spiritual and corporal

[Divya Shiva]

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On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM Divya Shiva <divyameedin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Appreciate your forthrightness.
> Had forwarded it here from the other mailing list for archival purposes.
> Hope it serves as an inspiration to myself / someone else at some point to
> research and come upon pioneering advaitic similarities / parallels. The
> relevance might be clearer to the Jagadgurus themselves considering their
> jnAnA, but as a seeker, I am looking forward to finding at least a bit of
> that profundity somewhere down the line.
> The discussion did veer around Theology and Agama, so either way, the
> conversation thread appears not in the least controversial, at least to me.
> The discussion can be considered closed, for what its worth. My initial
> post conveyed my benign purpose and intent.
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM <jaldhar at braincells.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, Divya Shiva via Advaita-l wrote:
>>
>> > The above prayer has stayed with me since childhood; we learnt it at
>> > school. A recent rereading of the Sri Devi Bhagavatam brought the above
>> > realization & correlation together rather well.
>> >
>> > Otherwise, my extensive reading in my teenage years has revolved around
>> the
>> > Anglican Communion, fueled by the exceptional theological and
>> philosophical
>> > prowess of Archbishop Rowan Williams. We have been fortunate to be able
>> to
>> > attend a few gatherings presided over by him; I consider it a blessing
>> that
>> > we live in London that allows us the opportunity to be part of a
>> thriving
>> > intellectual community.
>> >
>> > Another influence since the same age has been Dietrich Bonhoeffer. There
>> > are many others in this similar vein that I joyfully recollect in my
>> mind,
>> > as a response to your reply; thanks for the same.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> None of this has the slightest bit of relevance to the subject of
>> advaita-l which is Advaita Vedanta as taught by Shri Shankaracharya and
>> Smarta Sampradaya.  Please stay on topic.
>>
>> --
>> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
>>
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