[Advaita-l] Ramana Maharshi - Advaitin or Neo Advaitin?

[Kripa Shankar]

‎Namaste 

Jadabharatha studied the Vedas through proper means, as was common to the Kings. In his later phase of life he decided to perform austerities to attain perfection. However while staying alone in the forest he got attached to a deer and was born again. 

This example is quoted to demonstrate the subtle nature of attachment and not to establish the futility of Vedic study in the present life!  
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Even if we do accept that the proper study of Shastras in previous janma has led to a sudden burst of understanding in this janma, we need to ascertain the previous janma of Ramana. That obviously is not possible as there is no Rishi like Vyasa among us who could see the gati of Karma, past and present.

Regards 
Kripa ‎
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Vyasaya Vishnu roopaya Vyasa roopaya Vishnave 
Namo vai Brahma nidhaye Vasishtaya namo namaha 
  Original Message  
From: V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l
Sent: Saturday 1 October 2016 3:43 PM
To: Praveen R. Bhat; A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
Reply To: V Subrahmanian
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Ramana Maharshi - Advaitin or Neo Advaitin?

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Swamiji,
>
> Sorry, I forgot to add one additional point in connection to the
> clarification sought. A corollary to "Shruti is the only means to
> aikyaj~nAna" is that if anyone, anywhere, gets the aikyaj~nAna, then it is
> only due to its source being Shruti, be it in any language, in this life or
> earlier. This is what Swami Dayanandaji also says when he says that one
> cannot stumble upon the truth about oneself. Now, it is a different story
> whether a person's j~nAna itself is doubted/ not confirmed, but if it is
> considered that a person gained the aikyaj~nAna and he did not study
> shAstras in this life, then पारिशेष्यात् he must have studied in the
> earlier life/ lives.
>

We can take the case of Jaḍabharata in the Bhāgavatam. He is not known to
have studied the śāstra in the lives that are described in that work. In
the first described life he is a great devotee and engages in devotional
practices. In the next life he is a deer and is extremely careful not to
commit the earlier mistake and in the third is a jnani, right from birth,
though not recognized to be so by his kith and kin. His discourse of the
Tattva to the King of Sauveera is an excellent lesson in Advaita.

In fact the adhikaraṇa in the BSB 3.4.51 (aihkamapi....) is to apply the
case of Vāmadeva to any other case that we might come across in real life.

//श्रवणादिद्वारेणापि विद्या उत्पद्यमाना प्रतिबन्धक्षयापेक्षयैव उत्पद्यते ।
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इति
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इत्यर्जुनेन
पृष्टो भगवान्वासुदेवः ‘न हि कल्याणकृत्कश्चिद्दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति’ (भ. गी.
६-४०)
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इत्युक्त्वा,
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बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्’ (भ. गी. ६-४३)
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इत्यादिना ‘अनेकजन्मसंसिद्धस्ततो याति परां गतिम्’ (भ. गी. ६-४५)
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इत्यन्तेन
एतदेव दर्शयति । तस्मात् ऐहिकम् आमुष्मिकं वा विद्याजन्म
प्रतिबन्धक्षयापेक्षयेति स्थितम् ॥५१ ॥//

Shankara considers both the possibilities: 1. Sādhanā is completed but the
fruit of realization has not happened, but happens in a different janma and
2. Sādhana is not completed in one janma but continues in one or many
subsequent janma-s and gives the fruit.

regards
vs

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