New member introduction: Satish Arigela

[Ravisankar S. Mayavaram]

Satish wrotre
>  namaste ,
>
>  I am a masters student.
>  The reason for being attracted towards advaita is that
> some time back i used to think that advaita has
> something to do with shaivism.Now that misconception is
> cleared.I am also interested in shrii vidyaa. Since
> advaita bhaavam is essential for shrii vidyaa i thought
> of learning vedanta. So, as one of the efforts for the
> same ,i joined this list.

Satish,

Welcome. More than the confusion between advaita-vedAnta and shaivam,
the confusion that aiyar-s (tamil smArta brahamana-s) are shaiva-s is
more prevalent. In this regard I would like to direct you to an
excellent 20-part series posted by Dr. S. Marur titled "Sankara
Sampradhayam". If you search the Escribe archives with this title you
will get all the articles.

http://www.escribe.com/religion/advaita/

(May be we should compile this and keep it in our advaita-vedanta
site).


Also,  on the contrary, I was told that SrividyopAsana has some links
to kashmir shaiva tradition. It should be noted, however, that kashmir
shaivam is quite close to advaita-vedAnta unlike the shaiva-sidhhanta
which is dvaitic.





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   thanks Ravi.
i have been going thru and will definitely be going
thru the pointed archives.

> Also,  on the contrary, I was told that
SrividyopAsana has some links
> to kashmir shaiva tradition. It should be noted,
however, that kashmir
> shaivam is quite close to advaita-vedAnta unlike the
shaiva-sidhhanta
> which is dvaitic.

   i too read the same. i heard that the famous
commentator Abhinavagupta does not even spare
dualisitic shaivas in his criticism of schools other
than kashmira shaivam.
    One of the monks(shrii subhramuniya swami--kauii)
of shaiva siddhanta(SS) school claims that SS is
strongly advaitic and quotes extensively from
Tirumantiram and other agamas.however he agrees of a
slight difference.
 i personally feel that Tirumantiram has a slant
towards advaita.



> bhava shankara deshikame sharaNam

    satish

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