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

[Sujal Upadhyay]

praNAms,

Sri Ramana Maharshi was fully realised saint. Sri Kanchi Paramacharya
acknowledged this fact. There were many devotees who had equal reverence
for both saints. Though Kanchi Paramacharya never met Sri Ramana Maharshi,
he pointed out Sri Ramana's name to a foreigner who was looking for a fully
realised saint. Ra. Ganapathi said both respected each other.

While Kanchi Paramacharya stood to traditional approach, Sri Ramana
Maharshi did not observe any traditional customs.

Kanchi Paramacharya was an AchArya, Sri Ramana Maharshi was a Guru. Please
refer to the Book, 'The Guru Tradition' by Ra. Ganapathi, which are
collection of teachings of Kanchi Paramacharya Sri Chandrashekharendra
Sarasvati Svami.

an Acharya has to observe certain discipline, ask others to follow the same
and should be able to defend his sampradAya when needed. AchArya teaches
step by step as per tradition. Sri Ramana Maharshi was not an AchArya, but
a GYAnI.

Sri Ramana Maharshi was an exception. Exception is not a rule. Sri Ramana
Maharshi never asked anyone to follow his way of life. Like Sri
Ramakrishna, he is considered as an avatAra by his devotees.

... and, please while studing advaita vedAnta or Hinduism in general, do
not trust Google guru and wiki pramANa :)

Hari OM.

Sujal

"To disconnect from the self and to become Aware of anything else is
nothing but unhappiness" - Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi

He who has faith has all
He who lacks faith, lacks all
It is the faith int he name of lord that works wonders
FAITH IS LIFE, DOUBT IS DEATH - Sri Ramakrishna

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> Please forgive me for my ignorance. I had this long standing doubt about
> Ramana. I believed that Ramana taught Advaita all along thanks to the
> popular opinion. However I later realized that he was unacquainted with the
> scriptures.
>
> >  traditionalists who are familiar with Sri ramaNa's teaching would say
> he has completed these formalities ( like shAstrAdhyayana, shravaNAdi
> sAdhana etc.) in his previous janma/s so no need for him to start it
> again.  Rishi vAmadeva realized the truth in his mother's womb and it is
> because of his previous janma's saMskAra...justification for not reading
> the scriptures in this janma would go like this.
>
>  Further, he apparently learnt from the hill which he considered as Shiva.
> Isn't this dogma‎tic and a deviation from the tradition?
>
> >  for that matter guru dattatreya had 24 guru-s and all of them were not
> shrOtriya and brahmanishTa vedAntins as you know, mara (tree) sometimes
> lead to rAma as in the case of vAlmeeki  :-)
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
>
>
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