Badarayana/Sankara/Madhva/Ramanuja versus Chaitanya - Work on Gaudiya Bhakti Vedanta Portal ...

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Dear Devotees,

 

Hare Krishna

Please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

How are all of you ?

 

Sometime back, I had proposed that we start a portal exclusively to research

and present Gaudiya Vaishnava Vedanta. I waited for sometime to obtain

responses from all of you and some good ideas came through. However, this

would be a laborious long-term project that will unfold in stages. I am

confident that there are enough materials for us to gather, collate and

analyse. Eventually we have to come up with a catechism that addresses

doubts and answers well with thoroughly researched materials.

 

My two devotee friends, Ashwin Prabhu and Sushma Mataji, both from

Bangalore, are presently working on obtaining

a cost-effective portal for this purpose - www.gaudiyabhaktivedanta.com .

 

Once ready, I would be inviting all seriously inclined devotees to join.

During the initial stage, we have to work on gathering materials in our

sampradaya that deal with aspects of Vedanta. From having read Srila

Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada's biography, I do believe that

he would have spoken extensively on Vedanta. I do understand that he spent

considerable lecture sessions on presenting Upanishadic information. Also,

recently, I read a biography of H.H. Bhakti Pramode Puri Maharaja and it was

mentioned there that Maharaja was taking notes of Srila Prabhupada

Bhaktisiddhanta's lectures in Vrndavana, etc. So we have to spend at least

the first 6 months to a year collating materials - whatever we can find - to

create a resource pool with which to then tackle the issues. Gaudiya Math

materials would be there.

 

This portal will be accompanied by a that will discuss the

issues. All of these will be initially based on invitation only so that only

sincere and dedicated devotees fixed at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada

can join. I will be only inviting devotees whom I see as mature and

brahminical since the purpose is very specific and would require the proper

culture and intelligence necessary for Vedantic study. Once we develop

sufficient materials, we can then gradually open up to others. Otherwise,

the discussions would tend to go off track and there may be some

troublemakers who want to make life difficult for devotees during the

discussion process. I have seen some overtly open forums end up as

mudslinging arenas with no substantial spiritual understanding and growth to

be had. We have to avoid this.

 

Also, through this project, it is my desire to firmly establish the

Bhaktivedanta purports as the shining light through which Gaudiya Vedanta

may be best understood - hence the name gaudiyabhaktivedanta.com .

Therefore, despite all the differences we may have regarding ISKCON's

internal structure, policies, practices and controversial issues, while we

remain convinced philosophical of our own standpoints, we need to also work

in cooperation in certain projects for the common good of our sampradaya. In

this way, we would all not become islands but can still function within the

same family while we maintain our differences in certain respects. Some

common projects are needed in this regard and I do pray and hope that this

proposal will fulfil that need. Despite various viewpoints on matters, all

of us must have some love for Srila Prabhupada. Otherwise, we would not be

associated with the institution and mission he has established. It is on

this platform that we have to work.

 

Hare Krishna

 

 

your servant

r. jai simman

singapore

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achintya, "Jai Simman s/o R. Rangasamy"

<rjsimman@s...> wrote:

> My two devotee friends, Ashwin Prabhu and Sushma Mataji, both from

> Bangalore, are presently working on obtaining

> a cost-effective portal for this purpose -

www.gaudiyabhaktivedanta.com .

>

 

> This portal will be accompanied by a that will discuss

the

> issues.

 

If it pleases you to do so, you can use Achintya for this purpose,

since discussions of this nature was originally the reason for

creating Achintya in the first place.

 

Also, you should probably focus on vedaanta-suutra and Shriimad

Bhaagavatam together for this purpose. Aside from Iishavaasya and

Gopaala-taapani, I don't believe any commentaries on the other

Upanishads remain extant in our tradition.