FW: good talk

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Without permission of VidyaShankar, I am sending this to bhakti list, just

because it is my pleasure that God and our acharyas blessed us this

opportunity to get Dr. Anantharangachar on telephone to directly teach us

the ancient wisdom of vedas, as pointed very well by Vidyashankar;. Our

Vedic Wisdom is multi faceted and not limited by sectarian perceptions. We

need to learn our system from different perspectives wonderfully brought

down to us by different Vedantic Teachers. every thought from every acharya

is very valuable. Let noble thoughts come to us from all directions - Aa

no bhadrah kratovo yantu vishvatah - rig veda.

 

TAke for example, scientific theories of newton and shroedinger. will you

ignore one and pick only the other!

 

Please ask your friends to join our "modern high tech - teleconference

satsangs". Only your participation constantly in all such forums can make

them a lasting reality and a medium of constant interaction with our

acharyas back home. Please remember that even in the lecture Dr. NSA

confirmed that even for the intelligent one who can actually interpret the

vedas and other texts, direct service, seeking and learning from an acharya

is necessary. Participating in such discussions will give us a realtime

interaction with our acharyas - which is impossible for the people in far

away lands such as USA.

 

I thank everyone for your participation, and bring your friends also to the

this sattvik party! which will happen every other week.

 

adiyen Krishna Kalale

 

Vidyasankar Sundaresan [vsundaresan]

Sunday, January 14, 2001 8:19 PM

kkalale1; mani

good talk

 

 

My dear Krishna and Mani,

 

I just listened to the talk by Dr. N. S. Anantarangacharya. I

kept my line on mute, as my mike connection at my PC isn't very

good and tends to be noisy. So I couldn't make any comments or

ask questions at the end.

 

First, let me congratulate your effort in putting this together.

As you mentioned towards the end, this is an old generation of

scholars, who have immersed themselves in the Vedantic tradition.

There is much to be learnt from simply listening to them speak,

and I am happy there is this level of interest. It is up to us

in the younger generation to help carry forward the learning.

 

Second, I was struck by the connections our Upanyasa-karta drew

between the Gita verses on amAnitva etc. and the qualities that

Sankaracharya lists as prerequisites for the seeker. After going

through the commentaries, I have also independently come to the

conclusion that Sankaracharya draws these ideas primarily from

the Gita, particularly the kshetra-kshetrajna descriptions in

chapter 13, and the recapitulation of the whole text in chapter

18. Suresvaracharya also repeatedly emphasizes amAnitvAdi guNas.

 

Thirdly, the issues related to control of the mind - in a future

talk, it would be very useful to pick up from this and have Dr.

Anantarangacharya discuss how Yoga fits into the picture. Clearly,

there is a very important place for it in all Vedanta traditions,

and it would be most interesting to hear someone like him compare

the approaches of Sankara and Ramanuja to this issue.

 

All in all, it was great to see technology being pressed into the

service of tradition. Keep up the good work!

 

Best wishes,

Vidyasankar

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