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[Dr D Bharadwaj]

Dear Sri Sunil Bhattacharjya

I am disappointed to see this 'giving up'
on your part. It is a sad contrast to the
many other scholarly posts from you.

The gentleman's source may be not so worthy,
but the central view expressed is not uncommon among
many  [ including those who are also well read in Sastras] about Buddha's
role and contribution in the evolution of present day indifferent attitude
towards vedic dharma. He did debunk the Vedas. He did set the unfortunate
 precedent of questioning the
Veda as the ultimate pramana. This one singe act had had a snowballing
effect and created possibility for numerous outfits to sprout up with their
own self defined sets of pramanas!!

What we are unfortunately
facing to day is actually, in its true nature,
a crisis of the pramana.

 I saw your disgust for the gentleman's source, Wikipedia.
See we had come to the level of having to take such pramanas
as Wikipedia seriously!! The ball was set rolling for this to happen by the
cleverest of them all.... Buddha, the destroyer of the dharma in the
ultimate guise of an enlightened one !


Sir, my question is how can we approve of any
line that had questioned, debunked and threw
the Veda pramana to the winds?
If we buy into the persuasions of the modern peddlers of the
Buddhism, and accept him, where do we stand? What is our basis? what is the
pramana for us?

Regards,
Dr. D. Bharadwaj
drdbharadwaj at gmail.com


On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Shri Mallapalli,
>
> Thanks that at last you have told about the source of your knowledge of
> Lord Buddha. I have no comments. If you think that Lord Buddha did all the
> wrong things and preached the wrong things who am I to try to change your
> convictions.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
>
> --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Bhadraiah Mallampalli <vaidix at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Bhadraiah Mallampalli <vaidix at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Advaita-l] (no subject)
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 2:35 PM
>
> Dear Shri Bhattacharya,
>
> >Lord Buddha left his home, as a full-grown educated adult, at the age of
> 29 >years. He did study the Vedas like the Dvija scholars  did in those
> days, ie >without understanding the inner meanings.  No brahmin scholar
> including his >rajguru could explain the inner meanings to him. That is why
> he had to seek >the inner meanings elsewhere and at the first instance he
> approached the >different gurus. Then finally of course he discovered the
> meanings himself.
> Wikipedia says the contrary, that his father wanted to shield him from
> religious study, so he may not have gotten the vedic study at all. It also
> says he left home to overcome old age by living the life of an ascetic
> (reminds me Yayati who wanted to be young but tried a different formula).
> What stopped him from living a meditative life in the palace? Did he at
> first think the source of knowledge is in some teacher? Alright that he
> finally found nirvana, but did it not strike him that he had a missing
> karma
> of not ruling his kingdom? How did he fulfil this karma? Did he attempt to
> clear up this karma via meditation as well? When his father met him and
> said seeking alms is not roayl lineage, he replies back saying he started
> his
> own lineage, which doesn't sound fair compared to Hindu customs because
> in Mahabharata Vyasa was still considered a rajarshi and offered the throne
> by every one (except probably Dhritarashtra? not sure). So Buddha doesn't
> cease to be a king but he created his own rules departing from established
> history. Teaching his own father is another innovation, which is simply
> needless in Vedic, because for a person who gets mukti, 7 generations
> would anyway get mukti. (For others who didn't get mukti, as per
> Asvalayana Shrauta Sutra. we don't have authority to offer homage to any
> generation beyond grand father or one above him).
>
> Just trying to find out the ultimate cause of why he pursued his interests
> which would explain the final end result for society as well as for
> Buddha's
> path.
>
> Regards
> Bhadraiah
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