In Conversation : The Moderators Speak--As an aside

[Guest guest]

, "Devi Bhakta

<devi_bhakta>" <devi_bhakta> wrote:

>

> Shaivism, at least in Sankara's Advaita formulation,

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> would say that

> the manifest world is not Real. It is a distraction, a diversion

from

> the true work of of the spirtual aspirant. It is a false, albeit

> sometimes alluringly pretty thing, that we must learn to ignore,

> overcome, deny -- so that we may at last find the Truth, which is

the

> Transcendent Brahman alone. In that conception, I think it is fair

to

> say that Maya is a trick.

 

Although not quite related to the thread, I would like to point

out that Shaivism has nothing to do with Shankara's Advaita Vedanta.

 

Some Shaiva philosophies like Kashmir Shaivism are close to

Shankara's Advaita Vedanta but not entirely the same.

 

Shankara is a smarta and his philosophy is better distinguished by

the word "Kevala Advaita" or just Advaita Vedanta.

 

rgds

satish.

[Guest guest]

> Although not quite related to the thread, I would like to point

> out that Shaivism has nothing to do with Shankara's Advaita Vedanta.

>

Tirumoolar in his Tirumantiram, writes that "the end of Siddanta

(Saiva Siddhanta school) is the same as that of Vedanta", this a 1000

years before Adi Sankara. Indeed Tirumoolar's description of Brahman

and Maya are exactly identical to that of Kevala Advaita.

The "dwaita" character to the Saiva Siddhanta school came about

somewhere in the 10th century on the influence mainly of Sekkilar(??

i think).

 

yogaman