One of the Indian Sadu baba named Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in his talk with mass Indian Hindu said Buddha said There is NOTHING. BUT Adi shankaracharya was so brilliant he said There is Everything =D Sri Sri Ravi Shankar seems very ignorant and false in his preaching also because as far as I know Adi Shankaracharya was born in 788 AD and died in 820 AD whereas Siddhartha Gautam who became Buddha was born more than 100 years before him and how Adi Shankarcharya met Buddha =D Anyway here is what Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said, What is this something? Lord Buddha wanted to know this. He meditated and meditated, and he found that there is nothing! It is empty. He said, ‘I searched and searched and searched for the Self, but I could not find it. There is nothing.’ He said, ‘Shunya (zero); everything is empty. There is only emptiness; I could not find anything’. Adi Shankaracharya, from the Vedic tradition, came after Lord Buddha. (Lord Buddha did not have a teacher. He had a very tough journey of finding himself. This was not the case with Adi Shankaracharya; he had a teacher, a mentor.) When Adi Shankaracharya met Lord Buddha, he said, ‘Yes, I understand, this is all temporary, everything is changing. He asked Lord Buddha, ‘You said you could not find the Self, but who could not find the Self? There must be someone who was searching. Who was searching? Who could not find? That is the Self!’ With this one logic, Adi Shankaracharya turned around and brought the Vedic culture back into India. Otherwise, at one time, the whole of India was Buddhist. The main flaw in Buddhism was the principle that everything is empty. There is sorrow, there is emptiness in everything. This was the main focus of Buddhism. The Vedic principle is that everything is full; this is all consciousness. What we perceive as empty, is all bliss. Adi Shankaracharya said that the one who could not find (the Self), the one who is searching for it, that one is Sat Chit Anand. It has three characteristics: Truth, Consciousness and Bliss. It is Truth; nobody can say that I don’t exist. Even if someone says that they don’t exist, then how are they saying that they don’t exist? It needs someone to say it, that means they do exist; are you getting it? It requires a very sharp intelligence; the intellect of Shankaracharya is unparalleled. Adi Shankaracharya did not say, This is bad, this is wrong, this is foolish, no, never. He respected Buddha. He said it was a necessary step, but not the final step. Buddha’s step was necessary to move your attention from that temporary, from the ephemeral to something that is permanent. Adi Shankaracharya said, ‘Yes, we agree that everything is nothing, but nothing is also everything.’
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 03:14:10 +0000
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