[Advaita-l] Dayanand Saraswathi interview - Very interesting stand taken by Swami

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Kripa Shankar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste,
>
> Just thought I'd add these final points :-
>
> In spite of all the arguments made, the point made by LalitaalalitaaH
> still holds good. That RM categorically stated that, the basis for his
> 'non-dual experience' was the 'death experience' (whatever that is). So RM
> himself never claimed that he was a Vedantin. ‎
>

There are quite a lot of statements made by RM over and above the 'death'
experience which have to be taken into account.

> ‎
> Another fact which I am merely stating is - He didn't attain samadhi on
> his own will. He died because of a fatal disease.
>

If you think that Jnanis die of their own will, you are mistaken.

regards
vs

>
> Regards
> Kripa ‎
>
> yo vedAdau svaraH prokto vedAnte cha pratiShThitaH |
> tasya prakRRiti-lInasya yaH parassa maheshvaraH ||
>   Original Message
> From: Kripa Shankar
> Sent: Friday 27 January 2017 4:43 PM
> To: Bhaskar YR; Advaita discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Dayanand Saraswathi interview - Very interesting
> stand taken by Swami
>
> Namaste Bhaskar,
>
> As this was the first time I was speaking to him and considering that I am
> a complete stranger to him asking away questions out of the blue, I thought
> it was proper to address only the main issue. He was kind enough to answer
> all the  questions to my satisfaction. ‎Although I did mention the issue
> about astika - nAstika aspect that crops up in such cases as RM, he didn't
> specifically address that.
>
> But it is clear now that anyone can claim RM to be a jnAni, Jivanmukta,
> Maharshi etc. I was only trying to criticize from that angle(shAstra).
> ‎
> ‎As for criticising  the philosophy is concerned, we can never reach a
> conclusion in a debate and so it's futile. For whatever it's worth, I'll
> probably pen down my observations and share it. In fact, looking back, I
> feel Dayanand Saraswathi has made the best judgement on RM. ‎
>
> I am not desperately behind RM (as you may have suggested). He is the flag
> bearer of the neovedantins (just my opinion) and hence my doubts.
>
> Regards
> Kripa ‎
>
> yo vedAdau svaraH prokto vedAnte cha pratiShThitaH |
> tasya prakRRiti-lInasya yaH parassa maheshvaraH ||
>   Original Message
> From: Bhaskar YR
> Sent: Friday 27 January 2017 4:03 PM
> To: Kripa Shankar; A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
> Subject: RE: [Advaita-l] Dayanand Saraswathi interview - Very interesting
> stand taken by Swami
>
> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> However I know that RM is against Vedanta and my opinion of RM is still
> the same.
>
> > For your own good you could have shared what you know about Sri RM and
> posed this question also to Sri Anantha Sharma. You could have clarified
> him, according to you, how Sri RM was against vedAnta and due to that
> reason how you treat Sri RM. Who knows, you might have received an answer
> that would have put complete 'full stop' to your never ending doubts on Sri
> RM :-) Anyway, you are still planning for the second opinion from other
> scholar, all the best to you.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
>
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