Namaste Sri Benjamin:

Mathematically speaking, we all agree that at the point of
interaction of the two straight lines (Mahayana philosophy and
Shankara's advaita philsophy)they are identical! But just having one
common intersection will not make two straight lines to be equal.
Please contemplate on what Sri Sadananda had stated in his reply
before you reassert your speculations. The two straight lines will be
mathematically identical if we can establish two common points
between them and this is elementary geometry.

As Sadaji correctly stated that one need to establish the consistency
and validity of these philosophies at the Paramarthika level and at
the vyavahara level. Shankara beautifully distinguishes between these
two states of reality and this makes Advaita philosophy quite
distinct from nonvedantic non-dual philosophies and other pluralistic
philosophies.

Logically speaking, advaita is a non-dual philosopy but all non-dual
philosophies are not necessarily advaita! As I have stated in my
previous posts, the context of advaita philosophy is the entire
spectrum of Sanatana Dharam of Vedic religion and culture.

I do like your enthuiasm and your spirit of sharing your thoughts
with the universal population but I beg to differ from your key
assertions.

Warmest regards,

Ram Chandran


--- In advaitin (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, Benjamin Root <orion777ben@y...>
wrote:
>
> Namaste
>
> I believe that I have a potent weapon of mass destruction to refute
> all those who claim that Advaita (or Shankara in particular) is NOT
> idealistic, according to my uncompromising discussion of Subjective
> Idealism presented in the Introduction of Message 7.