[Advaita-l] Subject: A question on a dialogue in the Madhaviya Shankara Vijaya

[H S Chandramouli]

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 1:00 PM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 May 2020, venkata raman via Advaita-l wrote:
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> > Before the debate began, the two participants came to an understanding.
> > Sankara said to Mandana: "If I win you should take sannyasa, if you win I
> > shall become a house-holder *after performing the appropriate expiatory
> > ceremony or I will continue to perform expiation until death*"
>
> Thank you.  Though I am wondering what that expiation is.  There is
> definitely a school of thought that holds return from sannyasa is
> impossible.  For instance the father of the famous Marathi Sant
> Jnaneshvara was expelled from his community when he tried to do the same.
>
> Namaste.


Answer is available in the above statement itself. Punishment or expiation
is expulsion from the community.

Regards

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