[Advaita-l] Paul Hacker on Avidya in Brahma Sutras

[Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan]

Who wrote this? Do they have any traditional vedantic gurus? If not, it is
certainly eminently fit for the dustbin.

Ramakrishnan

On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 2:01 PM Michael Chandra Cohen via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Sri Venkatesh, pranam. I don't know how you can say that mulAvidya - the
> material seed, present in deepsleep, a bhavarupa shakti -  is not
> considered in traditional circles to be the cause of the world and thus
> "relatively real". Here is a link to a recent eminent encyclopedic entry
> repeatedly referring to a relative real satta.
>
> https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/shankara/
>
> On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 11:23 AM Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Namaste
> >
> > The question of Mula Avidya is discussed extensively in traditional
> circles
> > also. It is a misconception to think Mula Avidya as a really existing
> thing
> > giving rise to all Avidyas. No disciple of Sankara has said it really
> > exists. For explaining the world and vyavahara this Avidya is used.
> >
> > On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 6:41 PM Michael Chandra Cohen via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > > It seems to me any defense of Mulavidya vada would have to account for
> > > Hacker's exhaustive study. Sengaku Mayeda performed the same analysis
> on
> > > Upadesa Sahasri and came to similar conclusions
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nE0s2sFIqc0fYdgto0rGlW16xx6lsNEDJKsWVr6CJPw/edit?usp=sharing
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