[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Spiritual pursuit and familiy traditions

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste ji

I might add that the pursuit of Advaita-based sadhana entails no
significant change in the karmas and traditional and cultural practices if
a Sri Vaishnava or Madhva chooses to follow advaita as the guiding
principle. Sri Krishna Bhagavan would continue to be one’s Ishta devata.

Even passages exalting Vishnu over Shiva would be taken as arthavaada
(non-literal interpretation) to inculcate greater devotion. Such devices
were employed even by Sri Tyagaraja in his compositions exalting Sri Rama
over Bhagavan Shiva or Vishnu.

Only Verses or ideas or passages explicitly abusing Shankara or logically
attempting to counter advaita will be alone need to be understood as
logically incorrect.

Om
Raghav


On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 at 10:21 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM నావికుడు <navikudu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Namaskaram.  Discussions in one of the recently active threads raised an
> > important question. Could you kindly shed some light on this, preferably
> > with references or examples?
> >
> > Is a person born into a particular tradition (e.g. Dwaitha, Advaitha or
> > Visishtadvaitha) supposed to stick to the same tradition in their
> spiritual
> > pursuit throughout their life?  Or should a person apply genuine inquiry
> > and honestly seek the Truth even if it takes him / her  beyond own family
> > tradition?
> >
> > Pranaams
> > Sandeep Achar
> >
>
> A year ago I met a young man, in his mid 20's, who had accompanied his
> Acharya to an Advaita Chintana event.  During the five-day stay there I had
> interacted with him and got to know that he was a Madhwa from a town in
> Karnataka.  While doing CA course in Bangalore he had come into close
> contact with the Sri Ramakrishna Ashram.  Over time he developed a deep
> resolve to become a monk in that Order. Naturally his family resisted the
> idea. They got a couple of Madhwa pandits to talk to him.  They even got
> the intervention of the pontiff of a very famous Madhwa Mutt.  But he was
> firm in his resolve. He was pursuing serious study of Advaita in a
> traditional manner under that Acharya.
>
> There are such examples in all traditions. From Smarta to Srivaishnava and
> Madhwa and from the other two traditions conversion to Advaita.  They have
> happened in the past and do happen now.
>
> warm regards
> subbu
>
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