Topic for December and the List of Topics for 2004

[Guest guest]

Namaste:

 

First, let me take this opportunity to thank Sri Ananda Wood you for a

stimulating discussions on Atmananda's teachings. His style of presentation and

his mastery of advaita philosophy is quite complementary to the on going

discussions. We are still in the middle of this interesting topic and I believe

that it is not appropriate to move to another topic. I have requested Sri Ananda

Wood to continue these discussions and he has kindly agreed to do so. With the

upcoming holiday season, these discussions will certainly delight us and help us

to take some time for the spiritual refreshment.

 

During my informal email exchange with Sri Ananda, he would love to entetain

discussions from members who want to compare Atmananda's teachings with the

traditional views expressed through Gita, Upanishads and Shankara's other works.

In addition, those who want to present how the modern point of view compares

with Atmananda's teachings. I (also Sri Ananda Wood) would request Sarvasri

Sadananda, ProfVK, Gummuluru, Sunder, Nair, Greg, Dennis and Benjamin and others

to express their point of views on Atmananda's teachings as presented by Sri

Ananda.

 

The list originally scheduled a discussion on "Purushartha," for the month of

December lead by me. When I tried to prepare my notes on this topic, I realized

that this topic is not suitable for a month long discussion. Accordingly, I

would post couple of postings during the last week of December and Sri Ananda

has indicated that he is likely busy.

 

Let me also provide the following list of discussion topics for the year 2004:

 

1. srishti-drshti vada of advaita (Doctrine of creation & perception)

2. Naive Realism - the philosophical doctrine that physical object

continue to exist when not perceived

3. Perspective of Bhagavad Gita as the Yoga Sastra?

4. Perspective of Bhagavad Gita as the Brahma Vidya?

5. Historical perspective of Shankara's Advaita philosophy

6. Karma and/or karma-phala: what is it and its role in advaita

7. Proper understanding of wake-up/dream/deep-sleep states

8. Vedantic (also Gita's) perception of key to Happiness

9. pUrNamadaH pUrNamidam - Completeness is Changeless

10.AdhyArOpApavAda's role in advaita siddhAnta (Sri Bhasker)

11.Three Vedantic Schools of Thoughts - Similarities and Differences

12.Advaita Vedantic Perspectives Evidenced through Bhagavad Gita Verse

 

Let me take this opportunity to request members to volunteer to lead one of the

abve listed topics or any other topic of their choice which falls within the

scope of the list.

 

Warmest regards,

 

Ram Chandrn

[Guest guest]

Hari OM!

 

Dear Ramachandraji,

 

Kindly inclue "Value of Values" (20 Qualifications for a seeker) from

the Srimad Bahagwad Geetha, as a topic for one of the month.

 

Actually there are two books which is really thought provoking,

written by Swami Dayananda Saraswathi of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Value

of Values, and also Emotional Maturity, apart from that there are lot

of other Gems from him.

 

Please include these topics also for our discussion.

 

With Love & OM

 

Krishna Prasad

 

advaitin, Ram Chandran <rchandran@c...> wrote:

> Namaste:

>

> First, let me take this opportunity to thank Sri Ananda Wood you

for a stimulating discussions on Atmananda's teachings. His style of

presentation and his mastery of advaita philosophy is quite

complementary to the on going discussions. We are still in the middle

of this interesting topic and I believe that it is not appropriate to

move to another topic. I have requested Sri Ananda Wood to continue

these discussions and he has kindly agreed to do so. With the

upcoming holiday season, these discussions will certainly delight us

and help us to take some time for the spiritual refreshment.

>

> During my informal email exchange with Sri Ananda, he would love to

entetain discussions from members who want to compare Atmananda's

teachings with the traditional views expressed through Gita,

Upanishads and Shankara's other works. In addition, those who want

to present how the modern point of view compares with Atmananda's

teachings. I (also Sri Ananda Wood) would request Sarvasri Sadananda,

ProfVK, Gummuluru, Sunder, Nair, Greg, Dennis and Benjamin and others

to express their point of views on Atmananda's teachings as presented

by Sri Ananda.

>

> The list originally scheduled a discussion on "Purushartha," for

the month of December lead by me. When I tried to prepare my notes on

this topic, I realized that this topic is not suitable for a month

long discussion. Accordingly, I would post couple of postings during

the last week of December and Sri Ananda has indicated that he is

likely busy.

>

> Let me also provide the following list of discussion topics for the

year 2004:

>

> 1. srishti-drshti vada of advaita (Doctrine of creation &

perception)

> 2. Naive Realism - the philosophical doctrine that physical object

> continue to exist when not perceived

> 3. Perspective of Bhagavad Gita as the Yoga Sastra?

> 4. Perspective of Bhagavad Gita as the Brahma Vidya?

> 5. Historical perspective of Shankara's Advaita philosophy

> 6. Karma and/or karma-phala: what is it and its role in advaita

> 7. Proper understanding of wake-up/dream/deep-sleep states

> 8. Vedantic (also Gita's) perception of key to Happiness

> 9. pUrNamadaH pUrNamidam - Completeness is Changeless

> 10.AdhyArOpApavAda's role in advaita siddhAnta (Sri Bhasker)

> 11.Three Vedantic Schools of Thoughts - Similarities and Differences

> 12.Advaita Vedantic Perspectives Evidenced through Bhagavad Gita

Verse

>

> Let me take this opportunity to request members to volunteer to

lead one of the abve listed topics or any other topic of their choice

which falls within the scope of the list.

>

> Warmest regards,

>

> Ram Chandrn