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

[Vivek]

Thanks for the explanation Venkatraghavan



> On Jul 11, 2015, at 7:26 PM, Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
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>> > On Jul 11, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Anil Aggarwal <aaggarwal at wi.rr.com> wrote:
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>> > 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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