Timeline for K.S. Bhagavan's critique of Adi Shankara
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| Jun 25, 2018 at 14:45 | comment | added | YDS | C++...wow... :D | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 0:47 | comment | added | Rakesh Joshi | I am already active in agama.room if you wish to carry out.there. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 0:38 | comment | added | iammilind | @RakeshJoshi, sure. You are welcome! I would advise to create a chat room which contains those arguments & post a link to that chat room here. Anyone who is for/against that debate, may participate there. Thx! | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 23:52 | comment | added | Rakesh Joshi | Milind i am ready to justify all.critics with logical debate if you wish . | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 5:13 | comment | added | Swami Vishwananda | Good answer. Caste is a social institution, not religious. A person's 'spiritual' caste is determined by their inborn traits and propensities, not who their father or mother was. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 2:47 | history | edited | iammilind | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2015 at 2:41 | comment | added | iammilind | @sv. You can always criticize me in healthy way, should I make mistake. I am not referring KS Bhagawan here. Actually those arguments were not presented by Krishna and arguments from Adi Shankara were irrelevant. They dint answer all the "why"s sufficiently. To avoid this confusion I have edited my answer. Thanks for pointing. | |
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| S Oct 26, 2015 at 12:23 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | This conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 11:58 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | The reason they're not allowed to study the Vedas is because they're not eligible to perform the sacred thread ceremony as a child. As Adi Shankaracharya says "a Sûdra does not study the Veda, for such study demands as its antecedent the upanayana-ceremony, and that ceremony belongs to the three (higher) castes only". | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 11:51 | comment | added | iammilind | @KeshavSrinivasan, there is no denying that Adi Shankara's arguments could be quite relevant in his time. But again that's based on certain assumptions. e.g. He says that Shudras are not allowed for certain rituals due to lack of vedic knowledge. Then why can't they have vedic knowledge, what's the harm if they have it? Such things would have been understood during then. Due to its trivialness they are not cited in your link. I think by default all are born Shudra (temporary) and after mastering respective field, they become Dvija. Important to define Shudra from language perspective. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 11:33 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | "The quotes from Adi Shankaracharya about caste-system and Krishna about lower birth people were not presented with arguments." If you would like statements of Adi Shankaracharya about the caste system presented with detailed arguments, please read his commentary on Adhyaya 1 Pada 3 of the Brahma Sutras starting with this section: sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe34/sbe34103.htm See also my question here: hinduism.stackexchange.com/q/8682/36 | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 10:54 | comment | added | iammilind | A nice comment found in the linked article. Citing that here: "Ranjeet Kumar Agarwal (kolkata) 15 Sep, 2015 02:43 PM The honourable professor has grossly miss interpreted the Geeta. I would request very humbly to read "Yatharth Geeta" by Swami Adgadanandji available on line in all major languages. The mention of Sudra, Baisya, Khastriya and Brahmin are all about the different stages of Soul. Geeta is nothing to do with castism. It is about purification of soul. We people miss interpreted it as casts. Kindly read Yatharth Geeta. All confusion will get cleared." | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 10:36 | history | edited | iammilind | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 26, 2015 at 9:06 | history | answered | iammilind | CC BY-SA 3.0 |