The Insanity of Inquiry
In this darsana Svarupa Damodara Maharaja and Narasingha Maharaja ask Srila Sridhara Maharaja to clarify how the jiva first comes to exist in the material world and how the jiva receives his first material body.
It would seem that Sankara’s detractors were correct in assessing that his philosophy was crypto-Buddhism.
The aspiration to become greater than the Vaisnavas is not devotion – it is anti-devotional.