[Advaita-l] 'Buddha is not an Avatara of Vishnu' - An article in Kannada

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Hari Om V Subramanian ji,

Though entire world is manifestation of Brahman alone, yet there is a
difference between birth of ordinary people and that of avatAra. The
manifestation of avatAra is not owing to any prArabdha whereas ordinary
living beings are born due to prArabdha.

This being so, is it justified to say that everyone is avatAra.

In 4.6 Gita BhAshya, Acharya says -- संभवामि देहवानिव भवामि जात इव
आत्ममायया आत्मनः
मायया न परमार्थतो लोकवत्

In 4.9 -- जन्म मायारूपं कर्म च साधूनां परित्राणादि मे मम दिव्यम् अप्राकृतम्
ऐश्वरम्

Those who distinguish Maya and avidya hold that avatAra is owing purely due
to Maya whereas ordinary births have both Maya and avidya
(avidya-samyuktam-avyaktam of 7.4).

In any case, there appears to be a clear distinction between birth of an
avatAra such as Krishna and that of ordinary mortals.

Regards
Sudhanshu.




On Thu 24 Oct, 2019, 16:53 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 8:54 AM kuntimaddi sadananda <
> kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Subbuji - PraNAms
> >
> > Everybody is an avatar of Vishnu - the very first name in the
> > Vishnusahasranaamaavali is - viswam. The whole universe is Vishnu.
> >
>
> Pranams Sada ji,
>
> Very nicely stated. Shankara says in the Brahma sutra bhashya 2.2.44:
>
> Not just the four (Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, the
> entire universe from Brahmaa to the smallest creature, is the vyuuha,
> manifestation, of Brahman as per the Veda.
>
> न चैते भगवद्व्यूहाश्चतुःसंख्यायामेवावतिष्ठेरन् , ब्रह्मादिस्तम्बपर्यन्तस्य
> समस्तस्यैव जगतो भगवद्व्यूहत्वावगमात् ॥ ४४ ॥
>
> warm regards
> subbu
>
>
>
> > And the second name is Vishnu - vyaapakatvaat - who pervades the whole
> > universe as the very substratum. However, we revere those avatars who
> > devoted themselves not only to realize the above truth but to try to
> uplift
> > the society at large. We do not follow the teachings of Buddha since some
> > of the teachings are not in-tune with Vedanta.
> >
> > Hari Om!
> > Sadananda
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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On Thu 24 Oct, 2019, 16:53 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 8:54 AM kuntimaddi sadananda <
> kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Subbuji - PraNAms
> >
> > Everybody is an avatar of Vishnu - the very first name in the
> > Vishnusahasranaamaavali is - viswam. The whole universe is Vishnu.
> >
>
> Pranams Sada ji,
>
> Very nicely stated. Shankara says in the Brahma sutra bhashya 2.2.44:
>
> Not just the four (Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, the
> entire universe from Brahmaa to the smallest creature, is the vyuuha,
> manifestation, of Brahman as per the Veda.
>
> न चैते भगवद्व्यूहाश्चतुःसंख्यायामेवावतिष्ठेरन् , ब्रह्मादिस्तम्बपर्यन्तस्य
> समस्तस्यैव जगतो भगवद्व्यूहत्वावगमात् ॥ ४४ ॥
>
> warm regards
> subbu
>
>
>
> > And the second name is Vishnu - vyaapakatvaat - who pervades the whole
> > universe as the very substratum. However, we revere those avatars who
> > devoted themselves not only to realize the above truth but to try to
> uplift
> > the society at large. We do not follow the teachings of Buddha since some
> > of the teachings are not in-tune with Vedanta.
> >
> > Hari Om!
> > Sadananda
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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