Thursday, May 02, 2019

Vedanta - a new method

Vedanta can be thought of in very many ways like Vedanta in the traditional exegetical and commentary practice; Vedanta infused with meditative practices; Vedanta as applied to everyday life; Vedanta as a theory to approach subjects of humanistic interests; Vedanta vis a vis Mysticism and so on. I would like to view Vedanta here in its traditional practice as it was upheld by the commentators and see through the full length of their implications with reference to their own principles and references of hermeneutics and show how in the end the whole practice and understanding of Vedanta arrives at the standpoint which Sri Ramakrishna taught through his simple upadesas. Of course the intention at the start was not trying to prove Sri Ramakrishna's upadesa somehow or other. But while pursuing the Vedantic traditional practice of exegesis I could not have believed if anybody told me then that I would be arriving at Sri Ramakrishna's standpoint. But in a mathematical derivative neatness it happened just about like that and I was surprised to find a new interpretation resulting from the meticulous and uniform application of the principles of exegesis involved, which tallies nearly with what Sri Ramakrishna taught.

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