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Dear Vijay

Your name suggests victory. How do yu achieve it? be in the present. Why bother

about personages and past. I invite you into Geetha Chapter 11 verse 32. Lord

has already killed Bhishma, Jayadratha, and Karna. He asks Arjuna to take arms

and use it so that already dead are physically terminated. Why He did not show

the death of Abhimanyu and Ghatotkacha. Had he shown Arjuna who had thrown down

the arms whould have run away even throwing down his Kavacha and Keerata. Would

you explain?.

All the best.

JS

 

vijay2002new2002 <vijay2002new2002 wrote:

This is my first post/reply and I would like to thank the moderators

and members for giving me an opportunity to participate in the

discussions. From the responses I can see that the members are very

knowledgeable and a lot of them seem to be subject matter experts.

As far as my intro, I have always been interested in Advaita Vedanta

and the teachings of the Buddha and I am a regular practitioner of

Vipassana. I have several unanswered questions and I hope I can get

answers for those in this forum. I would also be sharing my thoughts

on certain topics.

 

Sri Bhikku-yogi ji wrote:

 

"I have heard that Sankara did not decry or condemn animal

sacrifices,

nor

did he practice them... This is disturbing to us "Buddhists",

because

we are

not supposed to kill animals at any cost."

 

If I remember correctly, Buddha in one of his discussions mentioned

that the Bhikkus may not eat meat if they know that the meat was

specifically prepared for their consumption.

> "Buddha, it must be remembered, refused always to discuss what was

> beyond the world. But from the little he said it would appear that

he

> was aware of a Permanent beyond equivalent to the Vedantic Para-

> Brahman, but which he was quite unwilling to describe."

>

> "The Buddhist Nirvana and the Adwaitin's Moksha are the same

thing.

> It corresponds to a realization in which one does not feel oneself

> any longer as an individual with such a name or such a form, but

an

> infinite eternal Self spaceless (even when in space), timeless

(even

> when in time)."

>

> "It [Nirvana of Buddha] is the same [as Brahman Nirvana of the

Gita].

> Only the Gita describes it as Nirvana in the Brahman while Buddha

> preferred not to give any name or say anything about that into

which

> the Nirvana took place."

>

> Hopefully these help and you'll begin to see the essential unity

of

> the teachings of Lord Buddha and of Vedanta.

 

I would like to add a few things to this discussion.

Buddha refused to discuss/answer certain metaphycical questions as

they were deemed ethically useless and intellectually uncertain and

deliberations would be just speculations and would not yield any

answers. According to Buddha the theory of conditional existence is

very profound and he did not want anyone to miss its importance by

diverting their focus to metaphysical discussions.

Dr. Radhakrishnan and Rhys Davids have mentioned in their

works that Buddha was born, brought up and died as a Hindu.

Walpola Rahula once asked J Krishnamurti:- "Are you not saying

what the Buddha said?" .

Krishnamurti asked Walpola:- " May I ask, Sir, with due respect, why

do you compare?".

Walpola replied "There is no necessity to compare. Comparison is not

necessary and not needed as The Teachings are The Teachings. The

Dhamma is the Dhamma".

These are the Teachings of Truth taught by Buddha,Shankara and

others and has no copyright.

We can engage ourselves in endless conversations and discussions

about what Buddhism says and what Vedanta says, but IMHO the

bottomline is, they are The Teachings and no comparions are

required. The aim should be to absorb the essence of these Teachings

and put them to practice.

 

Vijay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi Vijay

One can persue, what he feels as right, and it is alone the right (Manduka

Nyaya) till he compares, discusses with others. It is not at all to say that

any body is right. It is Giving the work to our minds(Thapas), to understand

this magnificiant universe. To bring out the truth I am of the opinion that

it needs to be discussed. If shankara hadn't discussed and clarfied many

things with the others we wouldn't have had such a base for

Advaita.Butduring this course we need to understand one thing,

discussions or

comparisons are for knowledge not for Humuns. When we shed our ego's and sit

for discovering that devine truth, there will be no way that any party will

feel bad as the Joy of knowldge will be far greater than Aham. I sometimes

feel very bad that unfortunately we are not having much discossions on these

subjects to understand the ultimate.

About issue of eating the meat, I think Shankara didn't do it because, he

was never invoved in the worldy mayas. People do lot of things, some knowing

as wrong, some unknowingly. He realized rather than to teach what is wrong

to the people Shankara went out teach what is the Right Path, and the path

is very simple to realize youself as God. If You are in that stage You will

not eat for the sake of tounge but for the sake of stomach. Prahlada says,

what can be sweeter than the Name of Govinda. I think Shankara went out to

show the right path rather than pointing wrong things what people are doing

 

This is as per my understanding, after reading of shankara vijaya, and other

his nobel work. Any body can contadict me and I am always ready to learn

 

Tat Sat.

Prashanth.K

 

 

 

On 8/11/05, jayantha srirama <jayanthasrirama wrote:

>

> Dear Vijay

> Your name suggests victory. How do yu achieve it? be in the present. Why

>