[Advaita-l] Fwd: Rama and Krishna are Jiva-s - Mahabharata
Kalyan
kalyan_kg at yahoo.com
Sat May 20 14:07:01 EDT 2017
Looks like advaitins are a divided lot since Shankara and Madhusudhana Saraswati consider Krishna as Ishwara and the latter considers Rama also as Ishwara.
Regards
Kalyan
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On Sat, 5/20/17, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Fwd: Rama and Krishna are Jiva-s - Mahabharata
To: "sreenivasa murthy" <narayana145 at yahoo.co.in>, "Advaitin" <advaitin at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>, "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Date: Saturday, May 20, 2017, 2:37 PM
2017-05-20 13:23 GMT+05:30
sreenivasa murthy <narayana145 at yahoo.co.in>:
> Dear Friends,
>
> In what way it
is going to help/benefit one by knowing whether Rama
> and Krishna are Jivas or Avatars or gods?
Is it the goal of the study of
> Vedanta
/ Upanishads? Is it not a waste of time and energy to go
on
> discussing such fruitless subjects?
Instead of such discussions is it not
>
much better to devote and energy to know one's true
Atmasvarupa? Please
> ponder over and
think about it.
>
Dear Sir,
The
Upanishad says: Ishvarānugrahādeva pumsām
advaitavāsanā. Shankara has
said in the
Brahma sutra bhashya: tadanugraha hetukenaiva hi jnānena
mokṣasiddhir bhavitumarhati. Thus, in order
to attain the knowledge of
one's true
svarupa, one has to have Ishvara's grace. Ishvara's
grace can be
had only by worshiping Him. In
order to know who is Ishwara and who is not,
such a discussion becomes relevant.
warm
regards
subrahmanian.v
>
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