[Advaita-l] Fwd: Omnipresence

[Srinath Vedagarbha]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:15 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>
> >
> > The bhakti experienced (as an emotion/bhAva) and bhakti practised (as
> > specific worship through japam and archana etc.), to either Maheshvara
> and
> > Vishnu are very similar in spirit and every practitioner knows this
> > empirically. This is such a no-brainer that offering a tulasi leaf or
> > offering a bilva leaf can be imbued with the same feeling of love for
> that
> > particular form of Ishvara.
> >
>

I am not at all denying there are great bhaktas in advaita sampradaya,
however what is the real knowledge of such bhakta? Does he consider his
upAsya devata really out there with all such kalyana guNas? or such guNas
are mere adhyAropa on NB? If former, he is not 'sampradayavit'. If later,
such bhakti  cannot be comparable with dvaitin's and thus the similarity is
superficial.

I can only assume (please note I say I assume)  -- given the fact that late
HH was a great social reformer (along with being a great scholar in Dvaita
vedanta) and true to His leadership in social reforming task, He could have
said that in the spirit of unifying thri-mathastha sampradaya folks.

/SV