[Advaita-l] BHAKTI AND JNANA COMPARED

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Namaste sir.
In fact acharya himself has made it clear that saguna upasana of isvara
gives mukthi. But his version of "ananya bakthi" is a bit different from
the popular notion.
Acharya says "ananya bakthi" gives krama mukthi and krishna becomes his
deliverer whereas for the jnani there is no such neccisity.
This ananya bakthi is constant remembrance of isvara's form without any
other thought. To the extent where he forgets about himself and forgets to
take care of himself. Hence isvara has to look after him. This is in
reference with the "ananyaschintayathe mam" slokha.
Further this bakthi needs to have the knowledge of "sarvam iti Vasudeva".
In either case even for the advaita jnani, the Jiva is part of isvara(BSB
bhasya) in terms of upadhis. The lord is the ruler and and the jeevas are
ruled(BSB).

But at the same time in whatever way one worships isvara they attain him
eventually. There is no doubt about this anywhere.

Namo narayana

On Sat, 7 Jan, 2023, 7:02 pm Shrinivas Gadkari via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Shri Sreenivasa Murthy,
>
> New Year Greetings.
>
> I will represent middle / lower level spiritual seekers like myself in
> this reply.
> For this class of people step by step progress is a great (only?) path.
> Combining jnana, karma, bhakti and yoga with different degrees is by far
> the best.
> (May be in the final analysis there is jnana only - but we are way
> tooooooooooo
> far away from that stage. So it is irrelevant to us).
> We JUST CANNOT give up this world on duality. We may have basic
> understanding
> of tattva-s including para tattva. But the world of name and form is very
> much real to us.
> bhagavAna and bhakta are NOT ONE at our level.
> We live partly in advaita but mostly in dvaita. For us this is the ONLY
> path.
>
> My praNAma-s those who wish to live fully in advaita. We salute you from a
> distance.
>
> With regards,
> Shrinivas Gadkari
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dear Sri Cohen,
> To put it in one sentence
>            " Bhakti is Jnana  And Jnana is Bhakti
>             which is one's own true nature                         and
>                 which is HERE & NOW"Know  this TRUTH and say good-bye to
> all concepts and words.
> With warm Pranams,Sreenivasa Murthy
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