VSN bhashya Verse – similar idea in karika. 2.19 & bhashya
In the Vishnu Sahasra Nama bhashya Shankara has cited a verse, reference to which is not available: स्वमायया स्वमात्मानं मोहयन्द्वैतमायया । गुणाहितं स्वमात्मानं लभते च स्वयं हरिः ॥ [By his own Māyā,...
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The Mirage Analogy for the World in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam
Kings who were imprisoned by Jarasandha were freed by Krishna. They do a stuti of Bhagavan. मृगतृष्णां यथा बाला मन्यन्त उदकाशयम् ।एवं वैकारिकीं मायां अयुक्ता वस्तु चक्षते ॥ ११ ॥...
View ArticleSamsāra as ‘software’ and the world as ‘hardware’– both are mithyā – Bhāgavatam
Saṁsāra refers to the experience of birth, death, pleasure, and pain. It is abstract, subtle. Prapañca (the world) is the physical system or infrastructure necessary for these experiences. It is...
View ArticleJivatvam is mithya – References from the Veda and Vedavyasa
In Vedanta, the jiva is an appearance, being a product of ignora nce. Brahman, the only Pure Consciousness alone appears as the jiva out of ignorance. When the due process of shravana, etc. is carried...
View ArticleWorship of any deity is allowed by the Upanishad and Shankara: 1.4.10 – yo...
Click to access worship-of-any-deity-is-allowed-by-the-upanishad-and-shankara1.pdf In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.10, in the famous mantra where Aham Brahma Asmi is contained, there is a passage...
View ArticleBhagavatam correspondence with ‘syāt parameshwarasyāpi’ of Shankara Bhashyam
Shankara has said in the Sutra bhashyam: : स्यात्परमेश्वरस्यापि इच्छावशात् मायामयं रूपं साधकानुग्रहार्थम् । (1.1.vii.20) (Ishwara, Nirguna Brahman, out of compassion, takes on, by His Maya, a form to...
View Articlemr̥t (clay) and bhasma ‘derided’ in the Garuda Purāna – nahi nindā nyāya
In the Garuda Purana is a chapter on Moksha and the means to it. There, while explaining vairagyam, the discourse mentions this: https://sa.wikisource.org/s/8h9 मृद्भस्मोद्धूलनादेव मुक्ताः स्युर्यदि...
View Articlenānātva (manyness) is bhrama – Bhāgavatam
nānātva is bhrama – Bhāgavatam श्रीमद्भागवते विष्णुपुराणे च भेदस्य नानात्वस्य च मोह/भ्रमत्वेन ख्यापनम् Sri Krishna, addressing Uddhava, says that samara is illusory, like a dream:...
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