Vedanta and Philosophy

6:06 AM

@KeshavSrinivasan - No , haven't seen mentioning of day but I will again check the whole purana and other related texts too 😊👍

SwiftPushkar

6:34 AM

@SreeCharan - Little Kartikeya is cute 😃👍👍💐

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aranyani

sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10146.htm

SwiftPushkar

8:18 AM

@KeshavSrinivasan - books.google.co.in/…

SwiftPushkar

9:55 AM

Question - What Hinduism SE teaches us? How it helps in our personality development?

Answer- Hinduism SE teaches us so many great lessons of life.

1) Karma Yoga - Ask question's , Find sources ,write answers , post answer's.

2) Be patient - After giving answer wait patiently fir long hours to receive even a single upvote.Or accepted answer.

3) Nishkam Karma - After finding , wtiting ,giving answer don't expect anybody to encourage or greet you fir your answer.It further teaches us to do our karma as Nishkam karma ,dont expect any upvotes.

many more to come.... users are requested to contribute

@Pandya @TheDestroyer @SreeCharan @Yogi @Tezz @KeshavSrinivasan @anuvaramban @RohitSinghRathore @Rakesh joshi @Rickross 😃⬆⬆

SwiftPushkar

11:56 AM

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A: According to great Einstein "If you can't explain anything simply that means you don't understand it"

human beings don't know about god am I right? See what Kena-Upanishad says about your question. यस्यमतं तस्य मतं मतं यस्य न वेद स:। अविज्ञातं विजानतां विज्ञातमविजानताम ॥3॥ YasyaMatam Tasya Matam Matam Yasya na Ved sa AvigyanTam Vijanatam VigyanTaMaVijanaTam He who thinks...

Pandya

1:37 PM

@SwiftPushkar Hmm... 👍👍

@SwiftPushkar आपकी उपनिषद् की आध्यात्मिक पढ़ाई कहा तक पहुँची? क्या गौड़पाद कारिका सम्पन्न हो गई?

Btw, I mistakenly read "Bahubali" instead of "Mahabali" in the title of @KeshavSrinivasan 's question! Haha

Keshav Srinivasan

2:04 PM

@Pandya Haha

@Pandya By the way, have you watched both of the Baahubali movies?

Pandya

@KeshavSrinivasan I watched 1st but not 2nd

Keshav Srinivasan

@Pandya Oh, you should watch the second, it's even better than the first.

anuvaramban

2:38 PM

@SwiftPushkar "Be Patient" very true!

Keshav Srinivasan

2:51 PM

@SwiftPushkar Thanks. But I think that that Brihadaranyaka Upanishads verse (1.1.2) is just talking about how different races of beings rode on different species of horses. It's not talking about a group of gods called Vajins.

Tezz

@Pandya haha lol... you read Bahubali...

anuvaramban

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Q: Rithambara Pragnya experienced by mathematician Ramanujan

Ramanujan Video RajyaSabha The above link (in epilogue, time 52 min 39secs has at the very end) while concluding it mentions a stage of "Rithambara Pragna", an attainment of a direct cognitive power of Cosmic Order. Can someone throw light on how this happens and evidences from the past for ...

vishishtadvaita

Is there reason to tag this question under VisistAdvaita? If so, does the answer accepted by OP reflect that?

Sree Charan

3:16 PM

@SwiftPushkar Thanks

@Pandya Baahubali fever... :D

Keshav Srinivasan

@Tezz @Pandya I just posted a question about Adi Shankaracharya's Brahma Sutra Bhashya and Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Bhashya:

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Q: Does Adi Shankarachaarya believe the existence of the soul requires scripture to establish?

In Hindu philosophy there are three main Pramanas or valid means of knowledge: Pratyaksha or sensory perception, Anumana or inference, and Shabda or revelation/scripture. There is a hierarchy of these Pramanas: Anumana is only applicable to those things which cannot be known through Pratyaksha, ...

philosophy vedanta atma adi-shankaracharya brahma-sutras

Pandya

@Tezz Btw, are there many languages in Nepal? I thought only one "Neplai" but recently I met one person who spoke name of 5-6 languages of Nepal!

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan Yeah, just saw it... interesting question...

Sree Charan

@Pandya An edit is pending

Tezz

@Pandya there are other secondary mothertongue languages also like Maithili, Bhojpuri, Kham, Newari, Tharu etc....

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nepal

@Pandya ^^^

Keshav Srinivasan

3:24 PM

@Tezz Adi Shankaracharya seems to be directly contradicting himself here.

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan Yeah...

@KeshavSrinivasan I think Shankara did so in BSB because it is Nyaya-Prasthana Traya and so he is defending through logic also...

@KeshavSrinivasan furthermore Charvakas won't believe that if he says 'Soul exists because scriptures say so.' ... so he used logic in BSB...

@KeshavSrinivasan however the commentary in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is only for those who are already Astika... so he used scripture (which is right source) here...

Keshav Srinivasan

@Tezz Well, one thing Adi Shankaracharya does not do in the Brahma Sutra Bhashya is establish the existence of Brahman through inference. In fact he, like all the commentators on the Brahma Sutras, explicitly prove that the existence of Brahman cannot be proved through perception and inference, only through Sabda Pramana.

Pandya

@Tezz ok

@SreeCharan tag correction?

Keshav Srinivasan

@Tezz Even when he's trying to refute Buddhists and others who don't believe in Brahman, he never tries to use logic to prove that Brahman exists. So why would he decide to use logic to prove the Jiva exists, unless he sincerely thought it could be validly proved by logic?

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan but where he thinks refutation of Charvakas in BSB, he should refute using logic... because it is reply for them.....

Keshav Srinivasan

3:33 PM

@Tezz By the way, regarding the fact that the existence of Brahman cannot be proven through inference, I posted a question about one of the arguments regarding that here:

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Q: Has anyone responded to Ramanujacharya's refutation of the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God?

In Western philosophy, one of the most common arguments for the existence of God is the cosmological argument, which states roughly that everything has a cause, and so the Universe must have a cause, namely God. (There's also a more sophisticated version of the cosmological argument developed by...

philosophy vedanta sri-vaishnava ramanuja nyaya

Pandya

@KeshavSrinivasan your questions sometimes look long like an Adhyaya but found simple & interesting once we start to read! Haha

Keshav Srinivasan

@Pandya Haha

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan Oh I think it's the longest question of this site....

Keshav Srinivasan

@Tezz Haha, it used be slightly shorter but then people were too lazy to read Ramanujacharya's long quote so I had to provide a summary of Ramanujacharya's argument at the end.

@Tezz I think this used to be my longest question on the site:

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Q: How does Ramanujacharya interpret Upavarsha's quote about the soul?

As I discuss in this question, by far the most popular school of Hindu philosophy is the Vedanta school, which bases its tenets on the doctrines laid out in the Brahma Sutras, a work by the sage Vyasa that summarizes and systematizes the philosophical teachings of the Upanishads. You can read the...

philosophy vedanta sri-vaishnava brahma-sutras purva-mimamsa

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan but summary is needed there... haha...

Keshav Srinivasan

3:44 PM

@Tezz But then I took out a big quote by Ramanujacharya from the Upavarsha question because people were complaining the question was too long.

Tezz

@KeshavSrinivasan Oh ok... 😀😀

SwiftPushkar

@KeshavSrinivasan - ok , I searched for gods also , but in most verses found the meanings of Vajin as white steeds or horses , will continue searching 😊👍👍

@anuvaramban - Yes 😊👍👍💐🍫

@Pandya - हाँ मैंने सभी नौ उपनिषद पढ़ लिये है ,और मुझे उनका विषय , तत्वज्ञान थोडा समझ मे आ गया है . लेकिन मैने अभी तक commentries (शंकर ,रामानुज, मध्व) नही पढी , उनका गूढ अर्थ अभी जानना बाकि है.लेकिन मैं उनसे यहाँ पर प्रश्नों के उत्तर दे सकता हूँ😊👍👍

Pandya

4:37 PM

@SwiftPushkar बहुत अच्छा। ☺👍💐

SwiftPushkar

@Pandya - लेकिन मैने एक बात देखी है भागवतं पुराण में उपनिषद के सभी विषयों को बहुत अच्छी तरह से बताया गया है , it's almost identical texts, मुझे ये जान कर बहुत surprise हुआ की ये सभी तो मैने भागवत मे देखा था , लेकिन उपनिषद और पुराणों की तुलना नही की जा सकती ,उपनिषद भारतीय तत्वज्ञान का आत्मा हैं और पुराण मनोरंजन और अध्यात्म का संगम. And found most advaita examples ,stories and philosopy In SB😊💐

SwiftPushkar

6:13 PM

@KeshavSrinivasan - Tried answering your question , mostly i am not sure 😊👍 waiting for your comments 😃

Keshav Srinivasan

6:46 PM

@Tezz @Pandya I just posted a question related to Adi Shankaracharya's Brahma Sutra Bhashya and the Purva Mimamsa school:

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Q: What arguments did Shabara's Mimamsa Sutra Bhashya take from the Brahma Sutras?

As I discuss in this question, by far the most popular school of Hindu philosophy is the Vedanta school, which bases its tenets on the doctrines laid out in the Brahma Sutras, a work by the sage Vyasa that summarizes and systematizes the philosophical teachings of the Upanishads. You can read the...

philosophy vedanta brahma-sutras adi-shankaracharya purva-mimamsa

SwiftPushkar

7:09 PM

@KeshavSrinivasan - Bye ,Wishing a nice evening time to you , 🍫🍦🍟🍌🍒🍞 🙏🌅

Keshav Srinivasan

7:20 PM

@SwiftPushkar Actually it's only afternoon here. Good afternoon for me, good night for you :-)

@Tezz @Pandya This is a follow-up to my Upavarsha question which I linked to above.

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Vedanta and Philosophy