[Advaita-l] Bhakti and Jnana

Kalyan K kalyankc.81 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 23:39:40 CST 2012


Dear Rajaram,

Have you discussed this issue with Prof. Sanjukta? If yes, what does she
have to say on this topic?

Regards
Kalyan


On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Rajaram Venkataramani <
rajaramvenk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:50 AM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
>
> Rajaram: Shouln't any opinion on Madhusudana be based on a traditional
> study or an academic study? This is what Madhusudana says (translation by
> Prof. Lance Nelson) in response to the objection that bhakti is perishable
> due to death, ""Heaven and other goals cannot be enjoyed forever. They can
> only be experienced at certain limited times and places through certain
> specific bodies and sense organs and moreover they are pervaded by the
> two-fold pain of perishability and contingency. So, they are certainly not
> ultimate. The uninterrupted flow of the bliss of devotion, however, is
> ultimate because it can be enjoyed equally in all times and places *without
> limitation as to body and sense organs*, like the fruit of knowledge of
> Brahman, and because it does not have the two-fold pain of perishability
> and contingency."
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