[Advaita-l] My question

[Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l]

Namaste

I think the other Mata followers use the word Maayaavaada derogatorily
towards Advaita because they think we say there is only Maayaa everywhere
and it is actually REAL. But Advaitis have said Maayaa is also UNREAL. They
cannot understand this. Ramanuja has made his misunderstanding very clear
in Sri Bhashya. Dvaitis also are misunderstanding and attacking without
understanding first.


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:42 AM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The term 'māyāvāda' was used by Vachaspati Mishra in the Bhāmatī which is
> a commentary on Shankara's Brahma Sutra Bhāṣya.  For Shankara the opponents
> were not Vedantins but the Sānkhya, Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika, Yoga, etc. which are
> all dualistic and not Aupaniṣada. There were no non-advaitic Vedantic
> schools prior to Shankara. All these schools hold the world to be real
> absolutely, and the jivas are many and real.  Vedanta alone, based on the
> Upaniṣads, holds the world to be unreal and the jiva is only Brahman
> appearing so due to avidyā.  Hence the term 'māyāvāda' is another term for
> Aupaniṣada siddhānta.  Brahmavāda is another term.
>
> Even though the bhāmatī did not use the term in a pejorative sense, the
> schools that later took birth claiming to be Vedantins, used the term
> against Advaita pejoratively.  These schools are no different from the
> other schools that are not based on the Upanisads in holding the world to
> be real and admitting jīva-nānātva.
>
> subrahmanian.v
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Namaste
>>
>> Other Mata followers say Advaita is Maayaavaada because in Advaita we say
>> everything in the world is Maayaa. Even we say after realization Ishwara
>> is
>> Maayaa. The only true thing is Brahman. That Brahman is your Atma. There
>> is
>> no other Truth than Brahma.
>>
>> But I think the other Mata followers cannot understand this. They think
>> Advaita is saying everything is Maayaa and there is no Truth at all. This
>> is like Bauddha Mata. But we are different from Bauddhas. They dont
>> believe
>> in Brahman and Atman like us.
>>
>> They say everything in the world is changing. Some people say the only
>> permanent thing is Change. But Change is possible to see only if you have
>> Permanent Background. What is the Permanent Background? It is the Witness
>> of Change. It is Brahman.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Animesh via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Namaskaram all respected members,
>> > I'm new member , i want to ask a question .
>> > Sometimes other than advaita vedantins  other mata call adwait as
>> Mayavada.
>> > I'm unable to understand why they call adwait vada as maya vada, please
>> > clarify.
>> >
>> > Srī mātre namah:
>> >
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