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Re: Puraanas
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To: ghen@netcom.com
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Subject: Re: Puraanas
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From: Mani Varadarajan <mani@be.com>
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 19:15:22 -0800
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Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
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> Shankara has quoted nothing other than the Vishnu Purana, which is pretty
> much advaitic.
Yes it is, but not in the sense of advaita as understood
by Sankara's school! The Vishnu Purana goes far beyond this
sense of advaita, and describes the Parabrahman as the One
without a second in the guNa-pUrNa sense, not in the sublative
sense. This Purana, by far the most philosophical of them
all, is cover-to-cover a eulogy of the One Infinite Being who
encompasses everything and everyone, but is yet more than this.
I encourage you to read the vedArthasangraha wherein this
Purana is discussed in splendid detail.
Mani
