First of all you do not need any pramana to establish dvaita.
Dvaita is pratyaksha. You open your eyes in the morning and what you see is the glorious sunrise.
And of course we bow our heads in awe at the grandeur of the Lord and say "tat savitur varenyam"
No philosphy or doctrine is needed to bring attention to this vibhuti of the Lord.
The Vedas are also not needed in appreciating this - at best the Vedas may provide us with some instructional tools in the form of rites and rituals so as to appease the Surya devata.
But... perchance a rare individual "parrekshya lokan karma chitan nirvedamayatastiakr uthkruthena tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet" approaches a Guru after examining this world of duality, and duality based rites rituals and duties, and concluding that there is something that cannot be attained by rituals, something that has to be known...then the Veda has to help this person transcend what is apparent i.e. duality.
And what does the Veda say with piercing clarity?
ya aditye tishtann adityad antarah, yam adityo na veda, yasyAdityah shareeram, ya adityam antaro yamayati, esha ta atmantaryamy amrtah.(Br Up 3.7.9)
He who inhabits the sun, but is within it, whom the sun does not know, whose body is the sun, and who controls the sun from within, is the Internal Ruler, your own immortal self.
sa yaschayam purushe yaschavaditye sa ekah (Tai Up 2.8.14)
He that is here in the human person and He that is there in the Sun are One.
Now, when you again wake up in the morning, and once again "see" "that" Narayana who is the savitru mandala madhyavarti the Lord in the Solar Orb and then see "this" One - the Self, lodged in one's heart, with the VedA as the pramana it becomes as clear as a fruit in one's palm hand = "that" is Naryana, "this" is Narayana, and between "that" and "this" is also Lord Narayana alone - in other words, the only Reality is Lord Narayana - satyam jnanam anantam -
and what about "me"? this "me" is nothing but the apparent, the false notion of an individuality which I the ignorant harbor. And in the incadescence of this knowledge, this notionality alone gets consumed.
There can be only be One Reality Brahman or Narayana - this is advaita. Thence alone is immortality.
As the Katha Up affirms
yadeveha tadamutra yadamutra tadanviha
mrtyoh sa mrtyumaapnoti ya iha naaneva pashyati
What indeed is here is there. What is there is here likewise. He who sees as though there is difference here, goes from death to death.
And for this alone you need VedA, you need teaching, you need philosophy, and you need enquiry - vichara.
Dvaita is pratyaksha. You open your eyes in the morning and what you see is the glorious sunrise.
And of course we bow our heads in awe at the grandeur of the Lord and say "tat savitur varenyam"
No philosphy or doctrine is needed to bring attention to this vibhuti of the Lord.
The Vedas are also not needed in appreciating this - at best the Vedas may provide us with some instructional tools in the form of rites and rituals so as to appease the Surya devata.
But... perchance a rare individual "parrekshya lokan karma chitan nirvedamayatastiakr uthkruthena tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet" approaches a Guru after examining this world of duality, and duality based rites rituals and duties, and concluding that there is something that cannot be attained by rituals, something that has to be known...then the Veda has to help this person transcend what is apparent i.e. duality.
And what does the Veda say with piercing clarity?
ya aditye tishtann adityad antarah, yam adityo na veda, yasyAdityah shareeram, ya adityam antaro yamayati, esha ta atmantaryamy amrtah.(Br Up 3.7.9)
He who inhabits the sun, but is within it, whom the sun does not know, whose body is the sun, and who controls the sun from within, is the Internal Ruler, your own immortal self.
sa yaschayam purushe yaschavaditye sa ekah (Tai Up 2.8.14)
He that is here in the human person and He that is there in the Sun are One.
Now, when you again wake up in the morning, and once again "see" "that" Narayana who is the savitru mandala madhyavarti the Lord in the Solar Orb and then see "this" One - the Self, lodged in one's heart, with the VedA as the pramana it becomes as clear as a fruit in one's palm hand = "that" is Naryana, "this" is Narayana, and between "that" and "this" is also Lord Narayana alone - in other words, the only Reality is Lord Narayana - satyam jnanam anantam -
and what about "me"? this "me" is nothing but the apparent, the false notion of an individuality which I the ignorant harbor. And in the incadescence of this knowledge, this notionality alone gets consumed.
There can be only be One Reality Brahman or Narayana - this is advaita. Thence alone is immortality.
As the Katha Up affirms
yadeveha tadamutra yadamutra tadanviha
mrtyoh sa mrtyumaapnoti ya iha naaneva pashyati
What indeed is here is there. What is there is here likewise. He who sees as though there is difference here, goes from death to death.
And for this alone you need VedA, you need teaching, you need philosophy, and you need enquiry - vichara.
Dvaita's opposition to advaita is usually centered on an incorrect understanding of advaita.
If those in the dvaita sampradaya, find what is clearly and repeatedly affirmed by Vedanta in mutifarous ways and through numerous analogies, unpalatable, and find that an elaborate analysis of Vedanta is needed to arrive at the very duality that is staring at you all the time, then, frankly, it is nothing short of a tragic waste of vichara.
2 comments:
excellent post.keep going.
hello friend excellent post about Advaita - not Dvaita - the message of Vedanta thanks for sharing!!
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