[Advaita-l] Shankara's view on Guru without having Shatra study

[Venkatraghavan S]

Sri Vivek,
Shankara BhagavatpAda is not being strict - he is merely being in line with
shruti which says a guru should be "shrotriyam brahmanishTham".

It's not sufficient if guru is just brahmanishTham, he would need to be a
shrotriya too - because shruti says that it is ultimately shravaNa, manana,
nidhidhyAsana of shAstram alone that leads to mokshA. The guru therefore
would need to be a shastra and sampradAya-vit himself to teach students the
shAstram.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan
On 11 Jul 2015 14:31, "Vivek via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Dear Anil. I agree but there have always been exceptions.
>
> Just trying to understand why Shankara's view has been so strict on that.
>
> Vivek.
>
>
>
> > On Jul 11, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Anil Aggarwal <aaggarwal at wi.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > For us mortals Samprdya is very important
> > Anil
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Jul 11, 2015, at 5:45 AM, Vivek via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hari Om,
> >>
> >> Dear ones. I'd like to get an insight into something
> >>
> >> It seems that Adi Shankaracharya promoted only the idea of someone
> being a Guru that has learned the Shastras.
> >>
> >> But there have been and are Mahatmas that are in the highest state and
> in that state have full knowledge of all the Shastras even though they have
> not studied them.
> >>
> >> That category seems to be on the bottom of the Guru list according to
> Shankara.
> >>
> >> Some views don't agree with this.
> >>
> >> Could someone expand their thoughts on this?
> >>
> >> Vivek.
> >>
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