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Re: Animal-Killing, and Soul-Merging Condemned
In article <4f6deg$ea3@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>> it is also false according to the Gaudiya Vaishnava school -- Shankara
>> is considered an incarnation of Shiva sent by the Lord (Narayana) to
>> preach the mayavada philosophy.
>
>I had no comments on this, I fail to see why this was brought out here.
>The absurdity of the supposition of the Gaudiya school speaks for itself.
I find it more than just a little interesting that your only way to react to
something you don't like is to declare that it is intuitively absurd.
That too, considering the fact that you call yourself an advaitin. Since
everything is one according to your philosophy, calling Sankara an incarnation
of Siva is not something you can refute.
>Eradication of Buddhism = arguments with them and hence defeat them. Since
>Buddhism was eradicated by Kumarila (supposedly an incarnation of Kartikeya),
OK, and what scripture is that from?
>this reasoning by Prabhupada can at best be dismissed as absurd. Obviously he
Oh yes. I forgot. Prabhupada supports what he teaches from Padma and Siva
Puranas, and yet you call his reasoning absurd. But when you declare that
Buddhism was defeated by an incarnation of Kartikeya (with no scriptural
support whatsoever) we are supposed to just accept that. Okay...
I grant you that you are very good at being offensive when you want to be. But
simply calling another person's reasoning absurd does not conceal the fact
that there is not substance to your arguments at all. You did not bother to
address the Puranic verses regarding Sankara and Siva, and you provided none
of your own when asserting that Buddhism was defeated by Kartikeya.
>had no clue of the various Digvijayas and took some bedside tales and
converted
>them into Puranic and Vedic assertions of his tradition's greatness.
[sigh] didn't humans evolve past this chest-beating stage tens of thousands of
years ago?
-- HKS
