Topics to be expounded

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Dear VishvamAdhvas:

 

In order to compare our great tradition with RAmAnuja's lets

divide them into groupings: DARSHANA (Philosophy) and SAMPRADAYA

(Tradition).

 

I. DARSHANA issues:

 

1. Some PramANa vicAra topics:

 

a) Indeterminate and determinate perception

b) Status of the 4000 Prabandhams of the 12 ALvArs

 

 

2. Some Prameya vicAra issues:

 

a) substance-attribute relationship

b) Nature of God's causal relationship to the Universe

c) DharmabhUtajn~Ana (Attributive Consciousness)

d) Ontological status of Space

e) Ontological status of Time

f) Ontological status of ShrI (MahAlakshmI)

 

 

3. Some SAdhanA and Mukti vicAra issues:

 

a) Doctrine of Prapatti

b) MuktAnandatAratamya (Gradation in the experience of Salvific

Bliss)

 

 

II. Some SAMPRADAAYA Issues:

 

a) Exaltation of GaruDa over HanumAn

b) Non-use of gopIcandana

c) once-in-a lifetime mudrAdhAraNa

 

 

I have listed these so that the opponent also can take note

and be ready to make his own parallel postings on these.

 

I shall summarize both positions on any given topic before I

analyze them.

 

 

Hari-vAyu smaraNa

B.N.Hebbar