[Advaita-l] Ramana's method

[Swami Sarvabhutananda]

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Namaste,
>
> About one thousand years after Sakyamuni Buddha, there was Buddhahosha,
> who is considered the second Buddha by many. In fact most of the Sri Lankna
> think of Buddhaghosha as the only Budddha because according to them Buddha
> visited Sri Lanka twice and it was Buddhaghosha, who visited Sri Lanka
> twice, whereas the Sakyamuni Buddha never visited Sri Lanka. Buddhaghosha
> wrote extensively on the Hinayana Buddhism, i.e,. the early teachings of
> Sakyamnui Buddha. Buddhaghosha, at the end of his study of Buddhism (the
> Hinayana Buddhism) expressed the hope that he will have to take another
> birth to have Maitreya Buddha (the theosophists think of Adi Sankara as the
> Maitreya Buddha) as his guru in order to attain Liberation.
>
>
> What I mean to say that Buddhist scholars  like Buddhaghosha probably knew
> that Lord Buddha's Hinayana teachings were not for the ultimate liberation
> but to prepare them for a later birth to attain the liberation through
> advanced teachings.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sunil KB
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at hotmail.com>
> To: Advaita List <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Ramana's method
>
>
> >
> > Thanks for all the insights. It will take some time to study them
> carefully, but in the meantime I have a doubt related to this. This has
> been gnawing at me for a long time.
> >
> > In dualistic traditions, god vision is the objective, and even in
> Buddhism the seeker looks out for jhanas and such experiences. So my
> question is, Must something extraordinary happen in an advaitin's life to
> confirm that his advaitic realization is genuine, perhaps the advaitin
> equivalent of a jhana? If an advaitin has no such experience all his life
> (only theoretical understanding), does that mean his knowledge will not
> liberate him at death, and that he will have to take birth again?
> >
>
> The jhanas that some Buddhist traditions talk about are comparable to
> siddhis attained by
> yogis and tAntrikas through various sAdhana-s. Even the most fantastic of
> these siddhis that
> are described in the corresponding literature is not considered moksha in
> advaita vedAnta.
>
> There is a reason why it is called prAptasya prApti in advaita. It is an
> experience that is not
> really an experience in space and time. The only experience that needs to
> happen is one
> where there is no more separate experiencer and there is no object that is
> to be experienced
> either. Pretty extraordinary, wouldn't you say?!
>
> Regards,
> Vidyasankar
>
> ps. By all means, read books on your own, but do not enter into vedAnta
> sAdhana without
> the guidance of a guru. Take your time accepting someone as your personal
> guru.
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