[Advaita-l] Regarding the Pancharatra, Shankara is one with Purvamimamsa

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 12:21 AM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> //The term 'sankhya-yoga' has different meanings. In Vedanta, it means
> that which is according to the Upanishads, with Brahman as the cause of the
> universe.  The 'sankhya' that is refuted in the BS is the one which has the
> insentient pradhana as the cause of the universe. In the BG itself this
> term occurs several times.//
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> Since in the Mahabharata, the Sankhya is mentioned apart from Vedas, it
> cannot be the case that Sankhya there means just the Upanishad doctrine.
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I would like to just point out that apart from advaitins, the other schools
adhering to Vedanta too have refuted the sankhya, yoga, etc. in their
Brahma sutras.  Madhva is said to have written the 'Mahabharata Tatparya
nirnaya' which must have taken all that is said in the Mahabharata into
consideration in order to give out a distilled purport of MB.  If he too
has refuted sankhya, can we assume that he has not understood the 'sankhya'
of MB?

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