[Advaita-l] Advaita and Madhyamika Buddhism

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Thank you, Venkataraghavanji, Chandramouliji,

Okay, I'll look up Ishtasiddhi sometime. The borrowed book is lying at the
table since many months, along with others borrowed, but I have barely
opened it! :)

Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:44 PM, H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Namaste Sri Praveen Ji,
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> Reg  << I have trouble seeing what the author means with the last line;
> while the concepts of shUnya and avidyA being compared, why has he suddenly
> landed on concept of shUnya and concept of avidyA *nivRtti*? >>,
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> Perhaps this is covered in detail in the body of the text Shatabhushani,
> as well as in Ishta Sidhi ant its commentary. However I think what is being
> stated is that according to Madhyamikas sunya is applicable to both  Consciousness
> and Creation, reality being denied to both, avidya of advaita  refers to
> Creation only and by avidya nivRtti, reality is denied to Creation only,
> Consciousness as its adhishthanam being the sole remainder.
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> Ofcourse  this is just my understanding based on other inputs and not an
> understanding of Shatabhushani itself which I am yet to read.
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> Regards
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> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Namaste Sri Praveenji,
>> I believe he is referring to the work "advaita makaranda"  by AnandabodhAchArya
>> which postulates that avidyA nivritti is a fifth category which does not
>> belong to any of the other four. Sastrigal is saying shUnyam, which is not
>> any of these four also, is not same as avidyA nivritti either.
>>
>> Regards
>> Venkatraghavan
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