[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Article on Shankaracharya
Sunil Bhattacharjya
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 27 14:18:31 CST 2016
Dear Aravinda Raoji,
Sorry if I have hurt your feelings. I feel sad that the controversies on the date of Adi Shankaracharya has not been sorted out till today. I have read in a mahapurana (I do not recall the reference at this instance to quote) that for practising dharma it is essential to have the proper historical facts. I hope there will be meeting(s) of the different groups to sort out the date of Adi Shankaracharya, sooner that later.
Regards,
SKB
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On Sun, 11/27/16, Aravinda Rao karavind09 at gmail.com [advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [advaitin] Re: [Advaita-l] Article on Shankaracharya
To: "Natarajan Ramamurthy natcons18 at yahoo.co.in [advaitin]" <advaitin at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>, "Vineet Menon" <mvineetmenon+advaitalist at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, November 27, 2016, 7:20 AM
As a traditional and loyal
student of Vedanta I found the article not only well
articulated but quite acceptable. We have to admit some
amount of dissidence or disagreement with traditional
thought. Surprised to see this much of understanding and
maturity in Pattanaik. Aravinda Rao
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at
5:21 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
[advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
Dear Vineetji,
You said :
<Most historians agree that Adi Shankaracharya lived in
the 8th century CE,
or 1,200 years ago, 1,300 years after the Buddha. *(P.S.
**three
monasteries among the four set up by Shankaracharya –
Dwaraka, Puri and
Kanchi – will say it is 509 BC. The fourth Sringeri
monastery will say 44
BC)*>
This is a very general statement and does not befit a
scholarly forum. Scholars need proofs. . There are many
historical leads such as the date of king Amaruka, that of
king Sudhanva as well as of king Purnavarman, the date of
Dharmapala, the teacher at Nalanda, who was a contemporary
of Dharmakirti, date of the Malava king Vikramaditya, who
was a contemporary of king Purnavarman, etc.
Moreover Sri Sureshvaracharya has been claimed to be one of
the earliest mathadhipatis by the Dwarka math, the
Sringeri math, the Kudali-Sringeri math and also by the
Kanchi Kamakoti math.
All these have to be sorted out with patience and I am sure
that all the claims of these mathas are their side of the
truth and with patience all these can be sorted out,
provided there is sincere will and open mind (i.e., no
pre-conditioned or biased attitude)..to get the truth.
Presently most of the scholars have their cup full with
their own ideas and cannot accommodate other's views.
Regards,
Sunil KB
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On Sat, 11/26/16, Vineet Menon via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
vedanta.org> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Article on Shankaracharya
To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
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Date: Saturday, November 26, 2016, 10:02 AM
NakaskAra,
As usual, Devdutt under heavy
doses of Wendy Doniger writes something which
looks good superficialy, but on deeper
inspection is full of
secular/western
agenda.
His commentaries
and monographs were so brilliant that Vyasa, the
mythical
organiser of the Vedas, himself extended his
life by another 16 years to
spread his ideas
to the world.
But then,
Mandana’s wife, Ubhaya Bharati, playfully challenged
him
to
knowledge of erotics (kama-shastra). When
the celibate Shankara pleaded
ignorance, the
lady asked him how he could claim to have understood the
world without experiencing sensual pleasure and
emotional intimacy. What
followed is
shrouded in mystery, and edited by latter-day puritans.
Some people argue that this shows the influence
of Buddhism on Vedism,
causing Hindu
supremacists to bristle.
Like any ancient or medieval figure of Indian
history, it is difficult to
separate fact
from fiction about Shankara’s life. Scholars are not
sure
which of his literary works are
authentically his, and which are attributed
to him to gain legitimacy or popularity.
Depending on what one cherry
picks, Shankara
can be turned into an incarnation of Shiva, a champion
of
Hinduism who drove out Buddhists, a prodigious
and prolific logician and
poet, a savarna
casteist Hindu, or a reconciler of paradoxes.
This obsession of defeating
intellectuals in debates has more to do with
indulging the ego than expanding knowledge.
Most historians agree that Adi
Shankaracharya lived in the 8th century CE,
or 1,200 years ago, 1,300 years after the
Buddha. *(P.S. **three
monasteries among the
four set up by Shankaracharya – Dwaraka, Puri and
Kanchi – will say it is 509 BC. The fourth
Sringeri monastery will say 44
BC)*
On 26
November 2016 at 22:43, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l
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> http://scroll.in/article/
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