Guest guest Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 --- SuriNow wrote: > SuriNow > Dear Moderators, > > Thank you for your email. > > I have nothing but praise for your Advaitin Community site: > well organised, > profound commentaries, scholarly, high minded, friendly in > spirit, are just > some of the qualities that come to mind. > > It is me who has entered the 'wrong' house. I'm at a stage on > my 'journey' > where, rather than acquire more new knowledge, I am throwing > something overboard > every day. I enjoyed my stay at your house all the same, thank > you. > > If you do not already know it the following book might be of > interest to you > and your members (it has helped me a great deal towards really > understanding > Advaita Vedanta): > > 'An Advaita Vedanta Perspective on Language' by John Grimes. > Studies in Indian Tradition No.3 > Sri Satguru Publications > Professor Grimes' website address is: > http://www.msu.edu/~grimesj/ > > Another helpful book to me was: > 'Shankara and Indian Philosophy' by Natalia Isayeva > State University of New York Press > > Keep up your wonderful work. > Kindest regards, > > Bill Hegi > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2004 Report Share Posted July 17, 2004 --- Ram Chandran <RamChandran wrote: > > > > 'An Advaita Vedanta Perspective on Language' by John Grimes. > > Studies in Indian Tradition No.3 > > Sri Satguru Publications > > Professor Grimes' website address is: > > http://www.msu.edu/~grimesj/ -------------------- Grimes used to be in the adviata(L) list and used to write on VivekachuuDaamani sloka-s. Since then he has published that book. He wrote one on 'The seven untenables' - it is a beautiful book analyzing the seven untenables discussed by Bhagavaan Ramanuja in his Shree Bhaashya against advaita as part of his mahaa puurva paksha. As Chittaranjanji wrote in his recent series that one should read Dvaita and VishiShTaadvaita books to learn more about adviata. I cannot but second him - particularly the Shree Bhaashya of Bhagavaan Ramanuja. I was fortunate to learn parts of it under the guidance of Shreeman S.M.S. Chari. (By the by Sreeman Chari has written excellent books on VishishhTadvaita and most of them are published by Motilal Banarsidass - there is a book by him - Advaita-vishisTadvaita - which is essentially translation of Vedanta Deshika's - Shata DhuushanI - hundrend absuses againt advaita - one should read this only if you are interested in hair-splitting arguments. According to Shreemaan Chari maama no advaitin has responded correctly for this) I cannot say the same thing about dwaita books - I found more distorted criticism of advaita as puurvapaksha and I keep closing the books whenever I open them to study. So frankly I never studied them to say that they are helpful, except of course I ended up helping X-junior swami of pejawar mutt to translate a dwaita book. I ended up taking care of this swami as my own son for few years until he has settled down on his own. Hari OM! Sadananda ===== What you have is destiny and what you do with what you have is self-effort. Future destiny is post destiny modified by your present action. You are not only the prisoner of your past but master of your future. - Swami Chinmayananda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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