THE Doctrine of Maya - HolyBooks.com

"OBJECTIONS WITHIN THE VEDANTA 135nal Advaita ;but Vallabha thought of purifying italtogether. It could not be held that Brahman,which is all cit, should be in inseparable union withacit. This would have been a contradiction interms, and would have soiled the doctrine of theUpanisads. 1Brahman was therefore supposed tobecome byits will. Now, this tendency to questionthe validity of Ramanuja s standpoint went so faras to keep the school of Vallabha away from discussing the theory of Maya. While Ramanujamade it a point to use all means at his disposal tobring the doctrine of Maya into discredit (and so toodid Madhva after him), Vallabha stood up to criticize Ramanuja. That iswhy we do not find anyspecial charges preferred by him against Maya."Of course, this does not mean that he endorsed thetheory, but simply that he did not meddle with theright or wrong of the question, and was content toestablish his own views in reference to a criticism ofRamanuja s. Hence we now pass on to an examination of some of the other objections, which are notraised strictlywithin the Vedanta.Saiikara has discussed at length the controversybetween the Sankhya and the Vedanta. In Adhyayai.he has established the main principles of Vedanta,and in Adhyaya ii. has attempted a thorough-goinginquiry into the various objections preferred by theSankhyas (ii. 2. i-io), Vaisesikas (ii. 2. 11-17), Buddhists (ii. 218-32), Jainas (33-36), Pasupatas (37-41),1 See Dvivedi, Monism or Advaitism, p. 104.