[Advaita-l] An article in Kannada – Reply to Sri Bannanje Govindacharya’s views

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Subbu ji
With my limited knowledge of the kannada script based on similarity to
Telugu, I could understand the initial argument viz., Sri Bannanje G is
saying that

 "Only Madhva has emphasized the primacy of " anubhava" (experience) in
arriving at the truth; there is no need to accept even what is in the Vedas
if it contradicts "anubhavam". Why do you people (advaitins)  claim " I am
brahman" when it contradicts your anubhava, and go around proclaiming this
blatant lie?"

Apart from the obvious misrepresentation and misunderstanding of advaita
and ignoring numerous references in advaita to anubhavam GYAnam, I wonder
what he says about how many common folks have had the 'anubhavam' of Sri
Krishna, particularly the anubhavam of the inferior status of other forms
of Ishvara etc.?

I had assumed Sri Bannanje G was somewhat more coherent than this?

Om
Raghav





On Thu, 14 Jan, 2021, 4:25 pm V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> In a recent video interview, the noted Madhva scholar Late Sri Bannanje
> Govindacharya had made some observations on 'anubhava - experience',
> Tattvamasi, etc.  Here is a response to these.  The article is in Kannada:
>
> https://adbhutam.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/bannanje-rep-r.pdf
>
> regards
> subbu
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