![]() ![]() Professor Adhikari tries valiantly to moderate the discussion but is often disregarded. When someone interrupts a speaker, he protests vehemently that this is contrary to the rules of shastrartha, where each protagonist must be allowed to present his point of view fully before objections are raised. Each of them is a passionate believer in his viewpoint and interpretation.Īll of them accept the primacy of the Advaita doctrine developed by Shankara, but all of them have a different take on it, and evaluate it from the point of view of their own philosophical 'loyalties'.Ī robust disputation follows, with Sanskrit shlokas being thrown about with abandon, as each speaker stresses a different point of view on such esoteric matters as the difference between shabda or word knowledge, pratyaksha jnana or direct intuition, the validity of shruti or the revealed word, the influence of Buddhist thought on Shankara's thinking, the limitations of Advaitic monism, and the validity of Vishista Advaita or qualified non-dualism as developed by later Hindu philosophers like Ramanuja. Several professors of different aspects of Hindu philosophy are present. ![]() What follows looks uncannily like a replay of how a shastrartha must have happened in the days of Shankara. ![]()
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