[Advaita-l] Brief Comparison of Three Great Acharyas

[Srivathsa Rao]

Santhosh ,shivaprasad dinakar ,swami sarvabhutananada sir,

Sorry for my harsh words,I won't repeat the same here again.....

But at last I want to say some thing...madhva lived for 69 years,ramunuja
lived for 120 years...still they were not able to come to the level of work
what adi shankara had done in only 32 years.

Some are good in some field and may not be good in other field.For
example,Even though madhva was good in his dvaita sidhanta,he did not know
how to spread his philosophy through out  the country.That is why dvaitha
can be seen only mainly in karnataka.
Shiva prasad sir said,Vyasa raja spread the dvaitha to some extent,but it
is vyasa thirtha not madhvacharya.
Madhva just copied the matha concept what shankara has previously
started.Before shankara sanyasi were restricted from making house (matha),
and staying there for years.But shankara started matha concept just to save
and spread sanathana dharma.He thinks it is better to keep sanyasi as head
of amnaya peetham so that he won't have greedy over someone or some thing.

Coming to shankara's point,He had good command over his philosophy and also
he knew how to spread his philosophy,that cam be easily seen from his matha
concept and his four amnaya peetha in four corners of the country.

Even great darshanikas think shankara lived for more than 32 years,because
they think it is very difficult for a person who lived only 32 years to
spread and save sanathana vaidika dharma in 700 A.D time ,when there was no
proper facility for any thing.

Now we have every facility still we are not able to convenes even a single
person.But that time without any facility shankara convenced about advaitha
to asthika's as well as nasthika people like jaina ,boudha.Which is very
very difficult.Because of him  sanathana dharma is still alive

That is even today shankaracharya is called as jagath guru,An avathar of
Lord shiva.

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Santosh Rao <itswhateva at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shiva is worshipped at Madhva's sode mutt in udupi as part of one
> particular tradition, it isn't fair to paint his philosophy with so broad a
> brush.
>
> Namaskar
> Sir,
>       I accept one should not accept his guru's teachings blindly.But here
> the question comes how intellectually brilliant your teacher is to answer
> your question.Coming to shankara,he could have taken sanyasa from a local
> sanyasi in kaladi ,kerala.But he wanted to take sanyasa from Govidha
> bhagavath pada,a well known brahma jgnani at that time.That is why he went
> from kaladi to madhya pradesh by walking, to take sanyasa dheeksha.Just
> like nowdays engineering students want to study from IIT ,not from local
> engineering college.
>
> But in case of madhva and ramanuja,their teacher are local teacher of their
> area.Who may have less intellect to answer answer madhva's or ramanuja's
> question,  that doesn't mean that philosophy is wrong.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 5:30 PM, SHIVPRASAD DINKAR <harivayus at bellsouth.net
> >
> wrote:
>
> > You say three great Acharyas and, pelt stones on two of them!!!  What
> > confused thinking to start with.
> >
> > When the norm itself is in-correct then, it has to be corrected.  That is
> > what Acharya Madhwa did.  This has got nothing to do with Guru Droham.
> But
> > confused persons and, people with less logical power/ less intellect who
> > will nod their head like a sheep to what their teacher says and, will
> > repeat like parrot what they heard cannot understand these things.  You
> > seem fit in that category of nodding their head like a sheep and
> repeating
> > like a parrot what they heard.  Acharya Madhwa corrected the in-correct
> > norm existing which was Adwaitham.  We are very proud that he did that.
> >
> > Subramanyam Chandrashekar the Nobel laureate corrected and, went against
> > his teacher Eddington.  Eventually Chandra was proved right and, he won a
> > Nobel prize in 1983 but, for less intelligent men like you, this would
> have
> > constituted Guru Droham.  So, you may wallow in your ignorance known as
> > Adwaitham.
> >
> > Dwaitham is not confined to Karnataka alone.  There are Telugu Madhwas,
> > there are Marathi Madhwas, there are Konkani Madhwas.  There are Dwaitins
> > in Bengal, Orissa - ISKCON all of whom trace their Guru Parampara to Sri
> > Vyasa Tirtha.  There are Dwaitins in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh,
> > Utter Pradesh.  Why, even so many Iyers and Iyengars couples get Mudra
> > Dharanam and, become Dwaitins.
> >
> > Do some serious study on Dwaitham and Adwaitham polemics instead of
> > writing ill thought out postings which are copy and pasted from other
> less
> > scholarly books.
> >
> > By the way, I am an Adwaithi by birth - born in Iyer family and, became a
> > Dwaithi after finding Adwaitham to be utterly illogical and foolish.
> >
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