Re: Info. on daSAvatArAlu
sadananda (sada@anvil.nrl.navy.mil)
Wed, 8 Jan 1997 08:07:18 -0500
>On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, MADHAVA KUMAR TURUMELLA wrote:
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>> B) nAstikatwam (nihilism) teaches that you are also not there. Nothing is
>> existing
>> neither you nor God. I remember a Sanskrit verse about Nastikatvam/CArvAkaM.
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>Sri Sitaramayya Ari wrote:
>No. Not true. Nihilism says that death is the end of a life; no rebirth
>and no after-life consequences to deeds commited in a life-time.
>
>Nastikatvam and Nihilism are totally unrelated.
Interestingly a discussion is going on currently about the similarities and
differenceces between Advaita and Bhuddism in advaita list. Without
getting into discussions, since I know only the former and not the later,
I am quating part of the latest mail in advaita list from Swami
Vishvarupananda that may be relevent to the current discussion:
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As far as Buddhism is concerned I would like to add here, that there are
various schools of Buddhism, and nihilism is not an element in all of them.
Mahayana Buddhism for e.g. is very much opposed to it and warns of "falling
prey to the shunya heaven of the nihilists". The Void is not defined as
nothingness here.
I mention this just to say, that generalizations are very dangerous, and
that to judge a philosophy just on the basis of some scholar's refutations
of that school, without our personal study, is at the least very one-sided.
Greetings and Om,
Swami Vishvarupananda
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