Dvaita - Visihtadavaita-Advaita

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Dear Ramesh,

 

I like the analogy. Actually,

you can add Shuddha advaita, dvaiaadvaita etc all in

the same bucket as Vishishtadvaita in this anaology.

 

The beauty is dvaita, advaita and everything in-between

are all partially true:

 

Yes wave is different from Ocean.

You can't navigate ship on a wave or fish or

do deep sea diving on it!

(this is also most popular view;

embraced by Islam, Christianity and Judaism).

 

Yes wave is part of the ocean.

(in-between; neither that obvious nor that abstract)

 

Yes wave and ocean are one and the same -salty water.

(abstract and insipid for most. For those who get IT;

it is instant and enduring bliss. Few adherents)

 

 

The whole truth emerges only when you

take all three (dvaita, advaita, and everything in-between)

together. That is why our primary scriptures as such

have all of them. We can see all these staring at us in

Bhagavadgita.

 

That is also why the champions of

a part of the whole truth have to be great scholars

and attorney generals as they have to write thousands

of pages and same number of arguments to twist and

turn and turn and attempt to make all others fall on their face.

That is also th ereason when we say we are studying Bhagavadgita,

others will ask you, whose bhashya?

 

K.S. tAtAchAr

 

 

 

g_m_ramesh

 

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 5:48 AM

Dvaita - Visihtadavaita-Advaita

 

To Distinguish between the three Philosophies of Dvaita - Visihtadvaita and Advaita, the Ocean and Wave Analogy can be helpful.

Please discuss if I am wrong:

When Wave thinks that it is a Wave, Different from Ocean - Dvaita

When Wave thinks that it is a part of teh Ocean - Visishtadvaita

When Wave thinks that it is as well as the Ocean is nothing but Water - Advaita

G M Ramesh