[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: A dialogue between Jnana and Bhakti

[Vikram Jagannathan]

Namaskaram Putran ji,

Thanks for sharing the wonderful article expressing the relevance of bhakti
in common experience. It is true that even some advaitins play
double-standard when it comes to reality of personal relations versus
relationship to the Great Lord - Ishvara.

In alignment with your overall opinion, however, I will need to reflect
deeper on your 5-perspective summary.

Meanwhile, just thought of sharing my notes on my current understanding of
bhakti in Advaita system. This is something I noted a little while ago when
someone was criticizing that bhakti is downplayed in Advaita, particularly
in SankaraBhashya. The intent was to very briefly summarize my
understanding of bhakti & jnana before responding to the criticisms.
https://archive.org/details/reflections-on-advaita-bhakti

prostrations,
Vikram

On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM putran M <putranm4 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM putran M <putranm4 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Namaskaram,
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>> I am attaching a slightly edited version that I sent to my personal group.
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>> thollmelukaalkizhu
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>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM putran M <putranm4 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Namaskaram Raval-ji
>>>
>>> I am seeing Subbu-ji's reply to your mail in the "advaitin" list.
>>>
>>> This confusion is a common problem for many of us trying to follow
>>> advaita. Even if we can intellectually satisfy ourselves otherwise, we may
>>> still find the difficulty at the practical level when studying and trying
>>> to align to shastras that talk of an ultimate truth beyond duality. Because
>>> the jiva-Ishvara dvaita bhava is only real if the bheda between jiva and
>>> Ishvara is real; and Advaita says bluntly this bheda is not real: it is
>>> mithya, adhyasa, avidya.
>>>
>>>
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