Antiquity of Advaita Vedanta
anandhudli at HOTMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 26 17:34:29 CDT 2000
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:27:33 PDT, nanda chandran <vpcnk at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>It sure changed my previously held
>>(misinformed) opinion of mAdhyamika as mere nihilism.
>Be prepared to change it again.
This is unlikely. The final equation that nAgArjuna gives is
pratItya-samutpAda = shUnyatA . This is made very clear also in the
VigrahavyAvartanI. And what is pratItya-samutpAda? It is the relative
reality of all things or the interconnected-ness of all things.
This is in a nutshell what he says. If you understand pratItya-samutpAda,
you have understood shUnyatA, and viceversa. This equation is his
tight-rope balance - the Middle way. There is no absolute reality;
there is no nihilism either. To realize the pratItya-samutpAda is
to realize the shUnyatA which is again nirvANa, the "blowing out."
He never says the world vanishes in nirvANa, like it does in the
bhava shankara deshikame sharaNam
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