Unless we bifurcate Bhagavan Buddha from Buddhism and Sage Sankara from Hinduism, the Advaita (Soul), which is hidden by the Dvaita (ignorance) will not be revealed.
Bhagavan Buddha was a Gnani, not his followers. Bhagavan Buddha’s wisdom was lost, it is because it is mixed up and messed up with other religions in Asia wherever it existed. Bhagavan Buddha started the quest and Sage Sankara completed the journey.
It is no use arguing that Buddha is wrong or Sage Sankara is right, but where are we going wrong in our understanding and realization of the non-dual or Advaitic truth, propagated by the great Sages of the truth?
Buddhism has nothing to do with Bhagavan Buddha's wisdom because Buddha's wisdom is physical. Buddhism is based on form, time, and space, whereas Buddha's wisdom is based on formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
From a Nondualistic perspective, emptiness is the real nature of the Soul, the Self. The Soul, the Self, is identified as nothingness or emptiness because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. Everything is nothingness. Nothingness is everything, and everything is nothingness. Nothingness is nonduality, and everything is duality.
Nothingness or emptiness is the real nature of the Soul, the Self, and everything else is the unreal nature of the Soul, the Self.
Nothingness is eternal because there is no second thing that exists other than nothingness, which is the nature of the Soul, the Self.
The Buddhist scriptures were completely distorted by the time of Sage Sankara. Sage Sankara had to criticize the Buddhist literature prevailing then, as the Buddhists themselves were confused as to what Shunyata is.
Vasubandhu and his disciple Dignaga (the latter lived about a couple of centuries before Sage Sankara) could not retain the original teachings of Lord Buddha.
At first, Vasubandhu did not agree with his half-brother Asanga and wrote one book on Abhidharma, and later on, he went to the side of Asanga and wrote a second book, where he opposed his own earlier views on Abhidharma. Sage Sankara had to criticize the Buddhist knowledge and literature of his time, as he wanted to bring us back the Pure Vedantic knowledge through his work on the Prasthanatraya. That is why there is a reference to the writing of Dharmakirti in Sutrabashya.
There is another aspect also The Vishnu Purana also says that Lord Buddha created confusion. In Sarnath, he first taught about the Moral code, which is basic. He talked about Anatma. Then? Two decades later, he taught the concept of Shunyata and the tenets of Mahayana Buddhism.? In spite of Nagarjuna's telling that Shunyata is not Nihilism and that Parajanaparamita also mentioning about Shunyata after one leaves? The five Skandhas, there are and there will always be people who will go on calling Buddha's philosophy as Nihilism. About the origin of the? Tantric Buddhism also There are controversies.
India is the ancient land where wisdom made its home. India, whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest Sages of truth like Bhagavan Buddha, Sage Sankara, Sage Goudpada.
Some say that without the sunyavada, Advaita philosophy could not have come into existence, because Advaita starts from where sunyavada ends. That is why they say it is an extension of Buddhism.
If Advaita existed prior to Buddha, he would not have advocated sunyavada at all because Advaita is the final and ultimate truth.
Since the Buddhist and Vedic scriptures have been passed down by hearing. They were written down only relatively late. So one wouldn’t know whether to rely on the times they give. Also, a lot depends on the translation. Each 'Shloka' or sutta is open to many layers of interpretation.
Most people will not show interest in acquiring Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.
Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is for those who found the path of religion, the path of yoga, and all theoretical philosophy and scriptural studies inadequate and useless to quench their inner thirst.:~Santthosh Kumaar
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