Talk:Appayya Dikshita

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This article really really really needs a complete rewrite by someone who is framilar with the subject. I'm not quite sure if this is a real person due to the grammer. It almost appears as though it was translated with an free online translator, or by someone who is learning basic english. --zachjones4 23:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Erroneous phrasing?
Dikshitar graphically describes dvaita as the lowest step, vishishtadvaita as the middle step and sivadvaita and advaita which are very close to each other as the highest steps. He makes it clear in his work that Srikantha-Bhashya on the Brahmasutra has been written in very close approximation to the trend of thought of Adi Sankara in his own bhashya. Srikanta, according to Dikshitar, propagated his cult on the understanding that sagunopasana (Worship of name and form) is only the first step to nirgunopasana (Propitiation of the nameless and formless), and that it was the real intention of Srikanta that the final truth lies only in Shuddhadvaita.

The last part of this sentence, which I have italicized above, is questionable. The problem is that there is a reference to "Shuddhadvaita," which phrase as such is the name of a Vaishnava school of Indian philosophy (and both Appayya Dikshita and the philosopher Srikantha were Saiva. My guess is that the intended phrase was the split phrase "shuddha advaita," or Sanskrit for "pure advaita," which written as such is equivalent to the direct English translation, which should be used, to avoid further confusion.  I reaquest any experts in Hindu philosophy or Sanskrit to please clear this up.--Krishnamurthi (talk) 15:52, 31 December 2008 (UTC)