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 Dear Swamy Desika BhakthAs:

 Today , we will study  the  two Paasurams dealing with
 Swamy  Desikan's  criticism of the Second of the Four
 Matham associated with Buddhism : YogAchAram.

 Before we proceed further with the study of the meaning of the Paasurams
 realted to the refutation of the doctrines of the four sects of Bhouddha
 Matham , it would be useful to have another summation of this matham
 as elaborated in SarvArTa Siddhi of Swamy  Desikan . The excerpts from
 the Doctoral thesis of Dr.V.N.SeshAdhriyAcchAr about SarvArTa Siddhi  is :

" There are three corner stones of Buddhism with the exception of
VaibhAshika matham : (1)Nothing is permanent , (2) Nothing has any self or
inner substratum , and (3) NirvANa is tranquility . According to Yamakami,
these three are fundamental tenets of Buddhism , which distinguishes it
from all other religious systems in the history of the world. According to
Buddhists , there is no being , but there is only becoming . All individual
objects are unstable  nad ephemeral. Every thing , be it a person ,
a thing or God  , is therefore merely an aggregation of component
elements. Further in all  individuals  , with  out any exception ,
the relation of their component parts is eternally  changing  and
is never the same  even for two consecutive moments.Putting
together implies  becoming  , becoming means becoming different ,
and becoming different  can not arise without  a dissolution-- 
a passing away , which must inevitably and finally be complete."

As an introduction to YogAchAra matham , the summing up by
Dr.V.N.SeshaadhriyAcchAr is pertineny :

" Things may be considered as permanent only if , at all times,
present , past and future , they remain the same without undergoing
any change or assuming a new future. If it suffers any alteration or
acquires a new feature  or peculiarity  , which did not exist before ,
it can not be maintained  as permanent . To the Buddhists , there is
no distinction between the  attributes (dharma) and the thing
possesesing that  attribute(dharmi) . The attribute and the thing
which is supposed by the scholars of other doctrines as having that
attribute are one and the same. So if a new change or attribute or
feature occurs in the thing , it is a new thing , the old thing having
ceased to exist ... YogAchAran  denies the existence of three
different entities , namely , cognition , its object and the cognizer.
The existence of them as distinct entities according to YogAchAran
is due to illusion ."

169) Refutation of YogAchAra Matham
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170) Establishment of the Universe denied by YogAchAran
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 Daasan , Oppiliappan KOil Varadachari Sadagopan

 SrImate SrI Lakshminrusimha PaadhukA sEvaka
 SrI Aadhi VaNN SaThakOpa SrIman NaarAyaNa YathIndhra
 MahA DesikAya Nama:


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