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

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Namaste

Prof. Neil Dalal - student of Sri Swami Dayanandaji wrote the Stanford
> article. One of the common criticisms of Vedanta is elitism - authority
> based on credentials rather than truth value per se.
>
That is because the shastras describe a lot of necessities for one to have
the adhikara to attain knowledge. Its not something made up by us, rather
the scriptures talk about it. And hence when an opinion is taken in
consideration, it's quite important to know wether it is from someone
inside the sampradaya because the sampradayas consist of a unbroken chain
of knowledge.

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> On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 7:10 PM Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan via Advaita-l
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> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> > 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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> > > > -Venkatesh
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