[Advaita-l] Both Bandha and Moksha under the supervision of Saguna Brahman alone

[V Subrahmanian]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:05 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Subbu ji
> Thanks for sharing that.
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> तदनुज्ञया ... संसारस्य सिद्धिः ; तदनुग्रहहेतुकेनैव च विज्ञानेन
> मोक्षसिद्धिर्भवितुमर्हति ।
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> Sri Shankara says here in the bhAShya passage that "by Ishwara's assent,
> there is the bondage of samsAra and by the knowledge which arises due to
> Ishwara's grace, there is attainment of the absolute freedom."
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> One gets the feeling that somehow the dvaitins want to gloss over such
> passages and misrepresent Advaita as somehow tantamount to belittling the
> role of Ishvara.
>

Very true. They think that the acceptance of Brahman as Nirguna has no
place for Ishwara in Advaita.  They concluded that 'to deny guNa-s in
Brahman is the way of Daitya-s' and so equated Shankara to a daitya (vide
the Madhva Vijaya of Narayana Pndita).

warm regards
subbu



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