(Continued...)
I was saying that our Acharya, had included ideas
from the non-advaita schools also. These ideas
as well as those of advaita had their origin long before their chief
proponents propagated them formally as
a
siddhanta. So Soundarya lahari being a work of
bhakti leaning a little on the side of the Shakta schools, has these ideas also in it. It talks about the ‘spandanaM’ of brahma-Shakti
and praises, in superlative terms,
the Shakti that caused it. But there is no such idea of ‘spandanaM’ in
the advaita shAstra of Adi
Shankara.
(Continued...)
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