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Swāmiji, Sri Sri Satchidānandendra Saraswati
Edition 2 | pp 1 - 186 | 2001
1. The System of Vedanta
- 2. The Tradition of S'aṅkara's School
- 3. Landmarks in S'āṅkara-Vedanta
Self-evident nature of Brahman as one's own Self.- The individual self is, by his very nature, no doer of action, for he is identical with Brahman as Pure Being.
- The individual soul is essentially Brahman, not a cognizer.
- Pramānās are such only till knowledge accrues.
- How S'āstra is the final Pramāṇa.
- Conclusion.
- 4. The Method of S'āṅkara-Vedanta
- The Method in a nut-shell.
- Assumption of specific features is only a device employed for the purpose of teaching.
- The deliberate superimposition employed in Vedanta never affects its validity.
- Why the Method of Superimposition and Rescission alone is employed exclusively in Vedanta.
- That Brahman is known only through the negation of the superimposed is a teaching common to all the three Prasthānas.
- Teaching by means of superimposition, is only for negating what it is not.
- Extracts from the Bhāshyas.
- 5. Varieties of the Vedantic Method
- Relation of the sequel to the preceding section.
- The Method of distinguishing Vidyā and Avidyā.
- The Method of S'āstra-Prāmāṇa.
- The Method of Creation.
- The Method of Cause and Effect.
- Brahman's entry into creation as a Jiva.
- The Method of Religious Works and Meditation.
- The Method of the Five Kōs'as.
- The Method of Self-effulgence.
- Exit, Going away and Returning, are all from the stand-point of Imputation.
- The Method of the Universal and the Particular.
- The Method of Three States also a device.
- The convention of Bondage and Release & c.
- 6. S'aṅkara's School of Vedanta as Contrasted with other Schools
- Defects in the Ancient Schools
- The Dogma that the Upanishads are injunctive in their Aim.
- The inconsistency of the S'āṅkara being composed afresh.
- No need for approaching an Ācārya.
- The misconception that Final Release is an effect.
- The doctrine of Release as the destruction of Avidyā.
- Vedic Authority cannot exculpate the Schools.
- Bringing forward a controverted argument.
- Special features of S'aṅkara's Tradition
- 7. Vedanta Contrasted with Buddhism
- Objection.
- Suspicion of the admixture of Buddhistic Doctrine in this system.
- Reasons for trusting the Kārikā-tradition.
- The disparity of the two teachings with regard to Reality.
- Divergence of the two systems with regard to Non-origination.
- Disparity in the Methods of establishing Reality.
- Conclusion of the Comparison with the S'ūnya-doctrine.
- Vedantic Vijnāna contrasted with Buddhistic Vijnāna.
- Dissimilarity in the method of rejection of the external object in the two systems.
- Mere employment of the word `Citta' does not entail similarity.
- Not even the employment of the term `Lōkōttara' can engender the similarity of the systems.
- Dependence on Yōga and the absence of it sharply distinguish the two systems.
- Conclusion of the Contrast.
- Conclusion of the repudiation of Buddhistic Influence.
- Conclusion of the Section.
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