RE: FORMAL SANNYASA IS IT PREREQUISIT TO JIVAN MUK TI??

[Guest guest]

praNAm all,

 

(To the list moderators: I have read this chain in its entirety and although

there was a stop suggested to beating the dead horse, I hope its okay to

bring out a small point. Thanks in advance)

 

Sanjay-ji said:

....The very structure of ashramas ensures that sannyAsa comes after

gruhastha.

 

praveen:

(Although I'm on the same side of the fence that you're on about the subject

line) is it not true that vanaprastha aashram comes after grihasta, not

necessarily sannyaasa? I recall that Sw. Chandrasekharendra Saraswati states

in Hindu Dharma that sannyaasa can be taken from any of the four aashrams.

Of course, that doesn't change the core of what you meant above.

 

jai bajrangabali,

--praveeN

[Guest guest]

I had some further discussions on this topic (outside this list) with

Sri Ram Chandran. I found his views quite useful esp. about dual roles

of Shankara as:

 

(i) a teacher of advaita and;

(ii) as an upholder of Hindu dharma, which placed great emphasis on

varna-ashrama system.

 

Most of the times, both the roles overlapped but sometimes there was

divergence in the two roles. I would request Sri Ram Chandran or

ProfVK or some other knowledgeable person to elaborate on this thought

sometime.

 

praNAm