[Advaita-l] vedAntins at the time of shankara

[H S Chandramouli]

I am very sorry I gave the wrong link reference to the book by Prof
Hiriyanna.  The correct reference is the book  " Indian Philosophical
Studies " which can be accessed at the following link

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https://ia601204.us.archive.org/8/items/IndianPhilosophicalStudies/Indian%20Philosophical%20Studies,%20Hiriyanna,M(1957).pdf
>..

Regret the error

Regards

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 11:16 AM, H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> <<  There are (and were) several different varieties of bhedabhedavada
> but they all agree that jivatma and paramatma are identical on some level.
> (That's the abheda part.) Where they differ from Advaitavada is that they
> do not think the two are _completely_ equivalent. (That's the bheda part.)
> >>,
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> At or prior to the time of Sri Bhagavatpada,  those who interpreted the
>  Upanishads in accordance with this view  are termed vrittikAras. The most
> notable amongst  them  and whose views have been specifically refuted  in
> the Bhashya ( though he is not named anywhere in the Bhashya itself) is
> BhartRprapancha . The principal difference between the two views (Sri
> Bhagavatpada and  BhartRprapancha) , and to which practically all the other
> important divergences can be traced, is that while both recognized a  पर
> (para) (higher)  and अपर (apara) (lower) Brahman, Sri Bhagavatpada
> explains the “lower” Brahman as an appearance (विवर्त vivarta) of the
> “higher” and therefore not of the same order of Reality, BhartRprapancha
> regards both of them as Real in the same sense. This is also referred to as
> BrahmapariNAma vAda and holds that jagat and Brahman  are both satya and
> enjoy the same level of Reality. This view is specifically refuted in BU
> 5-1-1. Refer Bhashya starting from
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> << अत्रैके वर्णयन्ति — पूर्णात् कारणात् पूर्णं कार्यम् उद्रिच्यते >>
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> << atraike varNayanti — pUrNAt kAraNAt pUrNaM kAryam udrichyate >>.
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> An excellent review of these two views (Sri Bhagavatpada and
> BhartRprapancha)  is to be found in the article  “BhartRprapancha –an old
> vEdAntin “  by Prof. Hiriyanna  available in the book  “Outlines of Indian
> Philosophy”  which can be accessed at the following link
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> << https://archive.org/details/OutlinesOfIndianPhilosophy1932MHiriyanna
> >>.
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> Regards
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