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Dear Sri Swathi Dora , here is the information you have requested .Best wishes

,in His Grace, Alan

 

 

 

--- swathi dora <doraksp wrote: > DEAR ALAN JACOBS,

> THANKS FOR FORWARDING THE MSG FROM ADI SANKARA GROUP, CAN YOU PLS LET ME KNOW

THE ID FOR THEIR

> WEB SITE.

> THANKS & BEST REGARDS

> DORA

 

 

File - FAQ Advaitin List

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding Advaitin - An Electronic

Discussion Group on Advaita Philosophy (List Objectives)

 

Advaitin Mailing list is an electronic Spiritual Forum to exchange

viewpoints focusing on Shankara Bhagavtpaadaa's Advaita Philosophy.

Advaita is based on the ancient Vedic Scriptures, the Upanishads, the

Bhagavad Gita, and the Brahmasutras. According to Shankara, Brahman, the

infinite consciousness, is the sole reality. Shankara establishes the

essential identity between Atman and Brahman. Advaita Vedanta holds that

all that exists is only Brahman. The plurality of living and nonliving

beings of the entire universe is indeed nothing but Brahman. The

ignorance and misapprehension of this astonishingly simple truth leads to

samsaara. The Atman of the individual jeeva is not different from

Brahman, and realization of this Truth is Moksha.

 

A number of institutions have drawn inspiration from Advaita

philosophy which include Shankara Matha-s, Ramanaashram, Ramakrishna Mission,

Sivananda Ashram, etc. The Internet contains an ocean of literature on

Vedanta Philosophy and the list welcomes discussions that can bring

new insights. The list encourages a wide range of discussion topics

focusing on Shankara, pre-Shankara and post-Shankara Advaita Philosophy.

Discussions can go beyond Indian culture and philosophy and the

discussants are welcome to post their personal experiences. The moderators will

not hesitate to exercise their right to curtail discussions when they

consider the discussion is drifting away from the primary focus. This

list is truly dedicated to Vedavyasa, Shankara, and the lineage of

aachaaryaas extending to the present day. Ramana Maharishi, Ramakrishna

Paramahamsa and other sages and saints of East and West who have

dedicated their life time on nondual philosophy. Discussions of insights by

sages and saints are welcome. The list intents to facilitate meaningful

discussions in a friendly and pleasant atmosphere with several key

goals: To understand the nature of who we are. To motivate the

beginners in philosophy and help them to understand and appreciate the

message of Scriptures. To help members to develop an attitude to appreciate

that every human being is good in his/her own way.

Guidelines related to members and postings

1. Though the primary emphasis focuses on Advaita Vedanta of

Shankaracharya, members have full freedom to explore broader aspects of nondual

philosophies, activities and news related to Institutions that support

Vedanta

2. The list facilitates courteous exchange of viewpoints from members

with different background. Members can exchange their views on Yogas

(Karma, Bhakti, Jnana and also Raja and Kundalini), book reviews, and

quotations on Spirituality.

3. The list moderators request members not to use this list to sell

commercial products but are encouraged to use this forum to exchange

information on books, tapes, lectures, cultural programs and URL addresses

on advaita topics.

4. The list moderators request new members to send a short paragraph

of self introduction. Please understand such introduction can greatly

help the fellow list members to get acquaintance with the new members.

5. At present members can post only messages in text format (ASCII)

and mails with attachments will be deleted by mailing list provider.

Please understand this arrangement will also guarantee protection from

computer virus infection!

6. The list expects discussants to engage in friendly discussions

focusing on the subject matter.

 

The moderators request members to avoid personal attacks and remarks

demeaning religions, religious leaders, individuals or groups. Members

who violate will be subject to moderation and repeated violations will

force the moderators to ban the violator from posting to the list.

List Archives are available at two sites:

WEBsite1: http://www.eScribe.com/culture/advaitin/ Latest postings are

available and members can search the archive using

author/title/keywords.

WEBsite2: advaitin/messages

 

Exchange of Scholarly Articles Between Advaitin and Advaita-L

The primary focus of Advaitin and Advaita-L (Website:

<http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/>) is Shankara's Advaita Philosophy and

both lists have agreed to exchange scholarly articles between them.

This will be facilitated as follows:

1 Scholarly articles posted in Advaitin can be forwarded to Advaita and

vice versa without prior permission from the author.

2 All such forwarded articles should be posted without any editing

unless it is done by the author.

3 Forwarded articles should get full credit to the author appropriately

(by retaining article header and/or by Website address)

4 Both lists encourage knowledgeable authors to post their scholarly

articles in both the lists by subscribing to both the lists. Members who

want to join and contribute articles to Advaita-L are encouraged to

read its list policies and scope by visiting the above mentioned homepage.

 

More Helpful Guidelines:

 

As a member of this list, you get the privilege to post your viewpoint

and the list expects you to observe civility and cordiality.

 

Sending your reply: Please take some time to edit and compress while

sending a reply to a post. You are obligated to remove unnecessary

portions before clicking the 'send' option. Your reply post should not

contain the entire article of the previous post.

 

The List mailing address, <advaitin> is only for

postings articles or replies and not for any personal agenda or propoganda

materials.

 

Intended Action: Appropriate Email Address

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To Post message: advaitin

To Subscribe: advaitin-

To Un:

advaitin

To temporarily stop Mail Delivery advaitin-nomail

To Resume Normal Mail Delivery advaitin-normal

To Receive mail in digest form advaitin-digest

 

To ListModerators advaitins

 

 

Changing Mail Preferences: Members can send an email to temporarily

stop the mails if they go on long trip or for other reasons. Members can

also switch to Digest mode which will facilitate receiving a messages

consolidated - one per day.

 

All the above actions can be completed by directly accessing the

Web Site and follow the online directions:

 

advaitin.

 

Please feel free to send an email with your specific request to the

moderators at advaitins

 

The advaitin list webspace (</advaitin>)

provided by contains extensive background materials related to

advaita vedanta. This webspace is available for use to all members of

this list. However, .com expects everyone who wants to use

their webspace to register their name and email address with them. This

is one of the price that we have to pay to get the free webspace and

free mailing list service. For registration and help to access the

webspace, please contact http://help./help/groups/

 

Advaitin List Webspace Bookmarks

Sri Sunderji (advaitin list moderator) has collected an extensive list

of bookmarks (links) to sites and has classified them into distinct

folders. Please review them at your convenience, and let Sri Sunderji know

of any dead links, inaccurate listing or information, etc and contact

him if you have questions and/or suggestions (Email Address:

sunderh)

 

Advaitin List Webspace Files

Sri Madhavaji (advaitin list moderator) has assembled a list of File

Foders with background information on advaita vedanta. This File Folder

is quite extensive and contains folders and subfolders.

Example Topics:

Advaitasiddhi (Topics in the advaitasiddhi by Madhusudana

Articles (Articles on Advaita and other related files)

Gita (Bhagawad Gita)

Members (Introductions and Photos of list members)

Moderate (Moderation related files)

Notes on Brahmasuutra (Notes based on H.H.Swami Paramaarthananda's

lectures on Shankara Bhaashya )

Ramanashram (Arunachalam - Ramana Maharshi Ashram)

Saints (Saints of India)

 

Please review them at your convenience, and let Sri Madhavaji know of

any corrections or new information, etc and contact him at

(madhava)

 

Members who want to help in updating the bookmarks and files folders

are always welcome. If each of us take a little time to help Sunderji

and Madhavaji by providing inputs, this will help all the members to save

lots of time. Also it is our Dharma to do whatever little help that we

can afford to do to the universal community. According to advaita

knowledge is one of the essential component of Jiva and through knowledge,

we can make the universe to be a better place to live for all of us.

 

With warmest regards from the Comoderators,

 

Frank Maiello (egodust)-Chief Moderator

Kuntimaddi Sadananda (sada)

Prof. V. Krishnamurthy (profvk)

Ram Chandran (rchandran)

Greg Goode (goode)

Sunder Hattangadi (sunderh)

Gummuluru Murthy (gmurthy)

 

 

 

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