Sujith
November 24, 2017, 11:02am
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Moksha in Adwaita is gaining union with Brahman, who is posited as the intelligent creator of the world. This is incompatible with the Buddha’s Teaching, which advises one to put aside the question of creation of the cosmos. No motive is assigned to Brahman, though - apparently it’s all just sport and play.
From the Brahma Sutras :
But (Brahman’s creative activity) is mere pastime, as is seen in the world.
Even as kings without any motive behind are seen to engage in acts for mere pastime, or even as men breathe without a purpose, for it is their very nature, or even as children play out of mere fun, so also Brahman without any purpose engages Itself in creating this world of diversity. This answers the objection raised in the previous Sutra against Brahman’s being the cause of the world.
Adwaita rejected the Buddha’s Dhamma as a bunch of unintelligible nonsense and considered the Buddha as a malevolent person.
From the Vedanta Sutras :
From whatever new points of view the Bauddha system is tested with reference to its probability, it gives way on all sides, like the walls of a well dug in sandy soil. It has, in fact, no foundation whatever to rest upon, and hence the attempts to use it as a guide in the practical concerns of life are mere folly. Moreover, Buddha by propounding the three mutually contradictory systems, teaching respectively the reality of the external world, the reality of ideas only, and general nothingness, has himself made it clear either that he was a man given to make incoherent assertions, or else that hatred of all beings induced him to propound absurd doctrines by accepting which they would become thoroughly confused.–So that–and this the Sûtra means to indicate–Buddha’s doctrine has to be entirely disregarded by all those who have a regard for their own happiness.
