[Advaita-l] On Brahmasutra - Shankara Bhasya - By Swami Paramarthanandaji

[Venkatraghavan S]

Dear Sri Sunil,

I'm not sure if your view was based on the Arsha Avinash pdf that Sri
Sadananda circulated earlier. If it was, in this particular instance, I
don't think the pdf summary captures Swami ParamArthAnanda's message
accurately.

Having listened to the talk, I don't think Swamiji's intention was to
present Buddhism as a philosophy that was "unsystematic" (sorry for the
double negative), just that Buddha did not set out to present a systematic
philosophical system - He taught people what he had discovered in his
spiritual journey and these talks were preserved by his followers. It was
only later when people followed his teachings as a new religion, Buddhism,
that the need to systematically present Buddhist philosophy arose, which
led to the creation of the sUtra, adhi dharma and vinaya pitakam's and
subsequent branches of Buddhist philosophy.

Anyway, this is only *my* interpretation after listening to Swamiji's talk.

Here is the link to the audio -
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/c7pcwqltcwa21sq/BS_002__INTRODUCTION.mp3

Will leave it to you to listen and draw your own conclusions.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Thank you Sadaji for the good work of Swami Paramarthananda. However, I am
> a bit hurt at the statement that Lord Buddha did not propound a systematic
> philosophy. Lord Buddha's life  was like an open book. He learnt Sankhya
> from Alara kalama but did not agree with the pluarlity of the purushas.The
> he took to practice  of yoga under Ramaputta but did not agree entirely
> with him. Then he meditated in Gaya for 6 years and was enlightened and he
> could see all his past lives. Another person to say that he knows all his
> past lives was Lord Krishna. Then as a first step Lord Buddha  taught in
> Sarnath about the 4 noble truths including the 8 fold-path needed as
> preparatory to the Spiritual journey and then he taught about the ways to
> achieve the Videhamukta state, which he called as the state free from the
> five skandhas (five koshas) or the state of Shunyata. This is the gist of
> his life's teaching established through innumearble discourses.
>
> As regards Budhha's philosophy one should read Buddhist canonical
> theravada texts and the canonical Mahayana texts. The brain-waves of people
> like Vasubandhu, Dignagaga and Dharmakirti in Buddhism are probably like
> the works of Navyanyaikas in Hinduism.
> Regards,Sunil KB
>
>
>
>      On Sunday, September 13, 2015 8:52 AM, kuntimaddi sadananda via
> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
>  PraNAms to all.
>
> Brahmasutra complete commentary is not now available on line. Thanks to
> Avinash. Foundation.
>
>
> http://arshaavinash.in/index.php/download/brahma-sutra-by-swami-paramarthananda/
>
> Hari Om!
> Sadananda
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