[Advaita-l] Fwd: Did an Advaitin plot to murder Ramanuja?

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

From TTD Saptagiri Sanskrit Magazine May 2017 Page 6 -

यादवप्रकाशाः

एते काञ्चीपुरे निवसन्ति स्म । अद्वैतवेदान्तपण्डिताः । श्रीरामानुजाः एतेषां
सकाशे अद्वैतवेदान्तविषयान् पठितवन्तः । ’कप्यास’मन्त्रविषये एतैः सह
श्रीरामानुजाः चर्चामकुर्वन् । एते रामानुजानां विषये ईर्ष्यां प्राप्य
रामानुजान् मारयितुं प्रयतितवन्तः इति प्रतीतिः वर्तते । कालान्तरे
यादवप्रकाशाः भगवद्रामानुजानां सिद्धान्तं अङ्गीकृत्य तेषां शिष्यगणे अन्यतमा
अभवन् । रामानुजानां सकाशात् सन्यासं प्राप्य ’गोविन्दजीयर्’ इति सन्यासनाम
प्राप्तवन्तः ।



On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:24 AM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Forwarding to this forum a post that appeared in the Advaitin forum:
>
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/advaitin/conversations/messages/69153
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:22 PM, kuntimaddi sadananda
> kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com [advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> These stories are not different from the stories that we read in the
> Shankara Digvijayas where there were episodes to kill Shankara too. ​
>
>
> The best thing to do is ignore these cock and bull stories and concentrate
> on the essence of the teachings.
>
>
> ​The stories are so elaborately given that many followers will not just
> ignore them. You yourself elaborated the details before calling it a cock
> and bull story! IMO, the Tantrika wanting to offer Bhagavatpadacharya as a
> bali for siddhi is not the same as an Advaita Acharya plotting to kill a
> student since the former is not unheard of, particular tantramArgas centre
> around bali and siddhis, and I doubt if such a tAntra follower would object
> saying that no tAntrika will offer bali However, the latter sounds
> ridiculous. So I will go ahead and make a statement--
>
> If the Acharya was an Advaitin, there was no plot to kill the student. If
> he really planned to kill his student, he wasn't an Advaitin at all. In the
> latter pakSha, since he didn't understand Advaita well, he passed on the
> confusion to his students and we know the rest. :)
>
> I saw a scene in some Kannada serial called "Madhva/ Madhvacharya" some
> years back and saw another ridiculous scene of an Advaitin poisoning the
> Dvaitin for losing in the vidvatsabhA debate! :) Now that is another cock
> and bull story.
>
> I consider all these plots as plots invented to paint the Advaitin in the
> grey.
>
> gurupAdukAbhyAm,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
> That owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */​
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-Venkatesh