The Role of Divine Grace in the Soteriology of Śaṃkarācārya
edited by Bradley J. Malkovsky
The Role of Divine Grace in the Soteriology of Śaṃkarācārya
Bradley J. Malkovsky
BRILL, 2001 - 431 pages
This volume examines the role of divine grace in the non-dualist soteriology of Samkara. The author argues that grace is an essential but generally overlooked feature in ?a?kara's enlightenment spirituality. Introductory chapters summarize recent developments in ?a?kara research, ?a?kara's epistemology and ontology, ancient Ved?ntic teachings on grace, and modern scholarly disagreement about grace in ?a?kara's Advaita system. The heart of the book consists of two lengthy exegetical chapters examining ?a?kara's key passages on grace from his dozen genuine works. The final chapter presents for the first time a systematic summary of ?a?kara's understanding of the operation and necessity of divine grace. This book provides a useful summary of ?a?kara's system as a whole besides offering a radical revision of the standard understanding of ?a?kara's soteriology. It also reveals that ?a?kara was much more indebted in his thinking to his Vedantic predecessors than had hitherto been thought.
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TĀDĀTMYA AND PRASĀDA: SARA GRANT AND BRADLEY J. MALKOVSKY ON THE METAPHYSICS AND SOTERIOLOGY OF ŚAṄKARA
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A Contemporary Interpretation of Mayavada: Advaita Vedanta and the Affirmation of the Material Universe
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https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.16945534
thesis posted on 2021-11-08, 02:24 authored by Parkin, Nicholas
Mayavada (the doctrine of maya) is the Advaitin explanation of how the infinite Brahman is manifested as the finite material world. Brahman is unchanging and perfect; the locus of the changing and imperfect world. This paper has two aims. The first is to show that mayavada affirms the reality of the material world, despite the claims of Paul Deussen and Prabhu Dutt Sharstri to the contrary. To achieve this end a world-affirming mayavada is formulated based on the metaphysics of Swami Vivekananda, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Sri Aurobindo. The second aim is to show that world-affirming mayavada is a plausible metaphysical position which should be taken seriously in contemporary metaphysical debate. To achieve this some pluralist arguments against nondualism are rejected, and it is explained how world-affirming mayavada is preferable to pluralism when accounting for the ontological problems that arise from limitless decomposition and emergence due to quantum entanglement. Hence the conclusion of this paper will be that mayavada is a plausible metaphysical position which affirms the reality of the material world.
