Locus of ignorance - Let us focus on contemplation instead of confrontation!

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Namaste Bhasker Prabhuji:

 

I wholeheartedly agree with you that there is no point in digging deep

inside the black-hole to look for something. If any of us understand

clearly what Shankara BhagavadpAda really meant, we wouldn't be

continuing a cyber satsangh. Persons with varied religious and

philosophical background interpret and appreciate Shankara's work for

different reasons. For example, the most popular of his

works, " Bhajagovindham " is admired by advaitins, dwaitans and

Visistadvaitans for different reasons. Even if they don't agree on what

he really meant in Bhajagovindham, they are all able to relish the

Truth that they see and cherish. Shri Sastriji has provided references

to the Post-Shankara scholars with their viewpoints and pointed out

correctly why it is futile to spend our time in making our own judgment

on who is right and who is wrong.

 

Besides you, we all should stop discussing on the merits/demerits of

scholarly works and divert on our focus to find the unity in the

diversity of opinions expressed by the scholars. None of us possess the

level of scholarship necessary to make critical review of those works.

The purpose of this Cyber Satsangh is to bring all the hidden works on

Vedanta philosophy so that everyone can get an access. Since we all

come with different background and different interests, it shouldn't be

surprising to see we have varied opinions on a topic of interest.

 

Hopefully, we all will agree that Sankara's focus was more

on `eradicating ignorance' and consequently we should spend our time in

that direction. Sadaji has already stated why `contemplation' is a

better choice than `confrontation,' and let us move to another topic

instead of digging deep inside the black-hole.

 

With my warmest regards,

 

Ram Chandran

 

advaitin , bhaskar.yr wrote:

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> Prabhuji, I donot want to say anything more on this...If I stretched

this

> discussion beyond limits kindly pardon me. This is my last post on

the

> subject *vyAkhyAnakAra Vs Shankara bhagavadpAd*.

>

> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

> bhaskar

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