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Re: Hindu scholarship and Vivekananda
In article <4e8uq5$o4k@babbage.ece.uc.edu> gmadras@pinto.engr.ucdavis.edu (Giri) writes:
>dran@panini.cs.albany.edu (Paliath Narendran) writes:
>
> While Shankara did give priority to Shruti, he never remarked,
>to my knowledge, that reading shruti alone or debating the finer
>points of it among your fellow (wo)men would lead to salvation.
In "Vivekachoodamani", Adi Shankara says that learning the scriptures
without attaining moksha is useless, but having attained moksha, learning
the scriptures is useless. This is a paraphrase from memory. What I think
he means is that merely learning scriptures will not lead you to moksha, but
if you have attained moksha, the direct personal experience makes the words of the
scriptures useless. How boring it must be to learn scriptures after you
have had direct experience!
Vallath Nandakumar
