[Advaita-l] the qualification to be an advaita guru

[Rajaram Venkataramani]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:

>
>   If there is multiple roads to ultimate destination, then the
> shruti pronouncement 'nAnyaH panTha vidyateyanAya' needs to be read in
> some other way.


Madhusudana definitely admits of two paths - bhagavat bhakti and atma jnana.
My reading of Shankara also definitely points to that. The end is Brahman.
Light alone can remove darkness but to say that light can only come from
phillips bulb does not sound right.