[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Deep Sleep is Nondual Self with objections refuted, SSSS

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

praNAms Bhaskar ji
Sure.
I understand your well-meaning advice to all to study SSS works.

Btw, on a lighter note, would you that the resistance to SSS philosophy
even after some reasonable degree of study is SSS, is due to avidya or is
it mAyA? 😊

Om
Raghav

On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 at 5:21 PM, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at hitachienergy.com>
wrote:

> praNAms Sri Raghav prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> You have misunderstood my intention in that mail.  I just asked Sri
> Jaishankar prabhuji to read Sri SSS when refuting his works instead of
> going by what his followers say (i.e. including me).  It is just like
> follow shankara not vyAkhyAna when shankara is available 😊 Don’t you think
> Sri SSS making this justifiable call after seeing the internal quarrel
> between bhAmati and vivaraNa??  He ( Sri SSS) makes couple of observation
> before emphasizing why only shankara and why not vyAkhyAna.  He clarifies
> wherever in any given context if there is any difference of opinion among
> the vyAkhyAnakAra-s, we should stick to the original and understand the
> purports in his own sentences.  And we should stick to the works that
> representing genuine sampradaya siddhAnta and take the other works which
> aimed to establish Advaita siddhAnta on the basis of mere logical devices
> and just to appease the dualists and  their objections in its own stride.
> Please note he humbly acknowledges the contributions of post shankara
> Acharya-s and their scholarships, their respect to saMpradAya etc.  But at
> the same time asks us to 'go back to shankara' when those vyAkhyAnakAra-s
> themselves, who are the official flag bearers of tradition, who are the
> sAmpradAyik desciples do not accept one another's interpretation or
> opinions.  I do think advising us to go back to moola is definitely a
> legitimate call from Sri SSS when those vyAkhyAnakAra-s fighting each other
> in the name of shankara siddhAnta.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
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