RE: Why ?Traditional Advaita? has not relevance to liberation.

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praNAm all,

 

Dennisji,

 

Thanks for bringing this *very* important point onto this totally misled

thread, if I may say that. IMHO, labelling Shankara siddhAnta as

untraditional is misunderstanding the meaning of tradition itself;

thereafter talking of advaita in itself doesn't have much meaning left!

 

Moreover, when we say that advaita should allow discussing all matters at

hand, arguing with the master is one thing and questioning *the* tradition

is quite another!

 

jai bajrangabali,

--praveen

 

 

 

 

Dennis Waite [dwaite]

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:54 PM

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Re: Why ?Traditional Advaita? has not relevance to

liberation.

 

 

 

Since there has not yet been any moderator comment on this as yet, I feel I

should make a few points.

 

First of all, the posted article was unattributed. (The guidelines are that

all quotations should be.) In fact, it was written by Tony Parsons, in

(unattributed!) response to articles by myself

(http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/path/neo_advaita.htm ) and Alan Jacobs

(http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/teachers/neoadvaita_jacobs.htm ).

 

The reason that it is inappropriate for this list has nothing to do with the

relative merits of traditional and neo-advaita. It is simply that this list

has its expressed purpose as being to discuss the subject of Advaita *as

taught by shaMkara*.

 

As far as the content of the article is concerned, it simply misses the

point that the 'traditional' method does *not* have a 'fundamental

misconception that there is such a thing as a separate individual'. It

simply *starts* with this position since that is the apparent situation of

the apparent person in this apparent world. The approach of shaMkara, from

whom all traditional teachings derive, is one of adhyAropa and apavAda -

false attribution followed by subsequent retraction. Now *that* is am

appropriate topic for the list. Unfortunately, we covered this some months

ago...

 

Best wishes,

 

Dennis

 

 

 

 

 

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