[Advaita-l] darshanas - older and later

[Gopal]

Namaste, Adityaji, and Sarmaji,

thanks for your pointers. I will pursue the sources for relevant specifics.

greetings on the occassion of makara shankranthi/pongal

sincerely
..gopal gopinath

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Aditya Kumar <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Sorry about that. I realised that my response was not at all to the point.
> Anyway, Surendranath Dasgupta's 6 volumes on Indian philosophy is highly
> recommended by all scholars.
>
> On Saturday 13 January 2018, 7:52:21 PM IST, Gopal via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
> Namaste,
> Adityaji, thanks for your vociferous reply. I requested info for the sake
> of some research and definitely not to start an argument..
>
> Subbuji and Sarmaji, and others,  Kindly point me to any source writings on
> the evolution/sharing of thought from older (pre-Buddhic) darshanas to the
> later ones codified post-Budhha as in the three vedanta schools.  I had
> promised someone specific examples and pramanas on whether the vedanta
> schools have adopted some core ideas from the five schools but could not
> (due to my limits) identify such references in detail.
>
> sincerely,
> ..gopal gopinath
>
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 1:33 AM, Aditya Kumar via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Vishishtadvaita has it's roots in Pancharatra school of Vaishnava agama.
> > Madhwa's Dwaita school borrows and relies heavily on the Neo-Nyaya school
> > which is NOT one of the classical schools i.e., Nyaya-Vaisheshika. Both
> > Buddhist Logic and Neo-Nyaya (Navya Nyaya) is evolved from the Nyaya
> > school. So in a way, Madhwa's school is more similar to Buddhism than
> > Advaita.
> > The common factor between the two is that both are not based on pure
> Vedic
> > origins, both were rebel/revolt cults. Ramanujacharya revolted against
> the
> > 'Brahmin hegemony' in Sanatana Dharma. Instead of completely antagonising
> > the Brahminical ritualism like the Buddha, he instead patronised it by
> > converting non-brahmins into Brahmin fold. We can notice such similar
> trend
> > now as well where white Europeans have acquired the rights to chant all
> > sorts of Mantras. Madhwacharya did the same thing by converting many
> > non-hindus to hindus. Both the Acharyas held a supremacist attitude
> > concerning the ultimate god to the extent that they almost deride other
> > gods. Something very similar to Abrahamic cults.
> > Essentially, they are non-Vedic schools/systems within the Vedic fold.
> Adi
> > Shankara's school is based solely on Shruti/Upanishads. The modern school
> > of Advaita also called Neo-Advaita is based on more simplistic
> non-duality
> > and does not rely much on any particular philosophy as such.
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