[Advaita-l] reg. posts on gItA

[sunil bhattacharjya]

Dear Friends,

You may find the following interesting in this
context. When Lord Rama asked Hanuman "Who are you?".
Hanuman replied as follows:

When I identify myself with my body(Dehabuddhyad) I am
a  servant of yours [This is Dvaita Bhava], when I
consider myself as an embodied soul(Jivabuddhyad) I am
a portion of yours [This Visishtadvaita Bhava] and
spiritually (Atmabuddhyad) I am yourself [This is
Advaita Bhava].

This may be a simplistic,  though not a
rogorous,definition.

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya

Regards

Sunil Bhattacharjya





--- Amuthan Arunkumar R <aparyap at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> namo nArAyaNAya,
> 
> dear shrI krunal makwana, 
> 
> --- Krunal Makwana wrote: ------------------------
> 
> I would really appreciate if you would kindly also
> bring into this discussion within your forum, the
> bhagavad gItA of Bhaktivedanta prabhupAda, the so
> called 'bhagavad gIta As It Is'. It would be a very
> interesting and stimulating comparison from an
> advaita, vashishthadvaita and dvaita/acIntya bheda
> abhedha.
> 
>
-------------------------------------------------------
> 
> i would personally like to do that, but the problem
> is
> that i don't have more than just a cursory
> understanding of both dvaita and achintya
> bhedAbheda.
> i come from a shrI vaiShNava family and hence, i had
> an opportunity to learn the traditional teaching of
> vishiShTAdvaita to some depth. in order to contrast
> dvaita or achintya bhedAbheda with advaita, one has
> to
> thoroughly study those systems first and such a
> study
> is very difficult for me right now, given the
> various
> constraints i'm in. so, i'll restrict myself to the
> two siddhAnta-s i'm quite familiar with - advaita
> and
> vishiShTAdvaita.  
> 
> regarding ISKCON, i'm indifferent to their teachings
> but for two gems in them : 1. their bhakti to shrI
> chaitaNya mahAprabhu, 2. their insistence on
> bhagavan
> nAma sa~nkIrtanam. if i'm not wrong, the achintya
> bhedAbheda system was formulted only in the
> seventeenth century or so. moreover, ISKCON people
> use
> smR^iti as their main pramANa (shrImad bhAgavatam)
> and
> some highly questionable upaniShads (like
> kalisantAraNa upaniShad) in contrast with the other
> schools which have a strong basis in shruti pramANa
> (besides smR^iti pramANa). 
> 
> regarding the dvaita interpretation of gItA, i guess
> any arbitrarily selected dvaita forum in the web
> will
> give u a flood of such posts :-)
> 
> vAsudevaH sarvaM,
> aparyAptAmR^itaH. 
> 
> Amuthan Arunkumar R,
> Final year, B.Tech/M.Tech Dual Degree,
> Dept. of Aerospace Engg., IIT Madras.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Amuthan Arunkumar R,
> Final year, B.Tech/M.Tech Dual Degree,
> Dept. of Aerospace Engg., IIT Madras.
> 
> 
> 		
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