Advaita the Weapon of Mass Destruction of Ignorance!

[Guest guest]

Namaste Sri Benjamin:

 

Mathematically speaking, we all agree that at the point of

interaction of the two straight lines (Mahayana philosophy and

Shankara's advaita philsophy)they are identical! But just having one

common intersection will not make two straight lines to be equal.

Please contemplate on what Sri Sadananda had stated in his reply

before you reassert your speculations. The two straight lines will be

mathematically identical if we can establish two common points

between them and this is elementary geometry.

 

As Sadaji correctly stated that one need to establish the consistency

and validity of these philosophies at the Paramarthika level and at

the vyavahara level. Shankara beautifully distinguishes between these

two states of reality and this makes Advaita philosophy quite

distinct from nonvedantic non-dual philosophies and other pluralistic

philosophies.

 

Logically speaking, advaita is a non-dual philosopy but all non-dual

philosophies are not necessarily advaita! As I have stated in my

previous posts, the context of advaita philosophy is the entire

spectrum of Sanatana Dharam of Vedic religion and culture.

 

I do like your enthuiasm and your spirit of sharing your thoughts

with the universal population but I beg to differ from your key

assertions.

 

Warmest regards,

 

Ram Chandran

 

 

advaitin, Benjamin Root <orion777ben>

wrote:

>

> Namaste

>

> I believe that I have a potent weapon of mass destruction to refute

> all those who claim that Advaita (or Shankara in particular) is NOT

> idealistic, according to my uncompromising discussion of Subjective

> Idealism presented in the Introduction of Message 7.