[Advaita-l] Vedanta vs Tantra

[Sanjay Varma]

All these schools of philosophy were taught by realized masters. They are
all talking about the same truth. However, when they verbalized it, they
did so in a way that it tackles the problem the student in front of them
was currently facing. When these teachings were compiled they seem to form
different schools of thought, which in reality are none other than rungs of
a ladder every student goes through.

Pranamam.

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:40 PM Mahadevan Iyer via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Pranams,
>
> I happen to read an article on Tantra by Jan Esmann - "A critique of
> Vedanta".
>
> Please read this article, it is interesting. - https://bit.ly/2AP6SNf
>
> He compares Vaisesika, Samkhya, Advaita & Tantra.
>
> 1. Vaisesika - Nature of Self as Pure Existence.
>
> 2. Samkhya - Nature of Self as Self-conscious Pure Existence.
>
> 3. Advaita - Nature of Self as Blissful Self-conscious Pure Existence.
>
> 4. Tantra - Dynamic Blissful Self-conscious Pure Existence. Dynamic =
> Shakti or Spanda.
>
> General Idea in my words
>
> * In Advaita, the Maya is used to explaining off the inconsistencies
> regarding the transition of Non-dual to Dual.
>
> * The advantage of Tantra over Advaita is that, unlike Advaita it does
> not need Maya.
>
> *  In Tantra, Absolute is both unmanifest and a dynamic creative force.
>
> * Maya is thus understood to be both the first sense of separateness
> from which individual consciousnesses and objects arise, as well as the
> play of life at large.
>
> * Vedanta is therefore not actually wrong, it is just inferior knowledge
> and inferior understanding.
>
> In this article, there are some wrong conception of Advaita. But still,
> the idea is interesting.
>
> Please let me know what you think of it.
>
> OM TAT SAT
>
> Mahadevan Iyer
>
>
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