[Advaita-l] Yoga - aparOkshAnubhUti - Vedanta Sara

[Srikrishna Ghadiyaram]

hariH Om !!

--- "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at braincells.com> wrote:

>  On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Srikrishna Ghadiyaram wrote:
> 
> > hariH Om !!
> >
> > I have not personally read the book
> aparOkshAnubhUti.
> > But based on browsing a few slokas and also from
> what
> > I heard from secondary sources, it deals with Yoga
> as
> > a 'practical' method to  Self-Realisation.
> >
> > Would the members comment on the position of
> > aparOkshAnubhUti in the tradition and also in the
> > scholarly circles. How the contents of this book
> are
> > explained in the context of Sankara's main
> > preseciption for Self-Realization  ?
> >
> 
> Aparokshanubhuti is traditionally regarded as a
> composition of
> Shankaracharya.  There is a commentary Dipika by
> Swami Vidyaranya and
> other illustrious Advaitin acharyas have also
> commented on it or quoted
> from it.  However some modern historians question
> the genuineness of this
> work in part precisely because it is replete with
> yogic references.
> 

In reply to this post Sri Stig mentioned - "However,
there is a view among scholars that Shankara is the
author only of the 
first
101 slokas, while the rest of the slokas (102-144)
where authored by 
someone
else at a later stage. As far as I understand, this
view was shared 
also by
Satchidanandendra Swamiji."

Jaldhar:  would you please comment if Dipika has
commentary on slokas 102 to 144, and similaly did the
other traditional teachers/quthors quote from slokas
102 to 144 ?

Om Namo Narayanaya !!

Srikrishna


> > Just a few days ago I was hearing Svami
> Dayananda's
> > lectures on Vedanta Sara and therein I heard him
> > saying Patanjali never called his method 'Raja
> Yoga',
> > and it is Vivekananda who coined that word.
> 
> Patanjali didn't call his system Rajayoga and
> Vivekanandas' neat division
> of "yogas" is bogus but it is a stretch to say he
> invented the term.
> 
> ...
> 
> >
> > Also, Vedanta Sara of Sadananda mentions SravaNa,
> > manana, nididhyAsana, and samadhi as the four
> steps
> > for sadhana. See paragraph 181.
> >
> > I understand Vedanta Sara is followed as a
> standard
> > text book. So what is the tradition ? Does it mean
> > that the Sankara's followers accept the position
> of
> > this author, because they are teaching it.
> >
> 
> As K. Kathirasan says, while it is replete with
> yogic ideas, the
> aparokshanubhuti uses them to Advaita Vedantic ends.
>  So there is
> no conflict there.
> 
> We have discussed in the past that the classical
> Samkhya/Yoga system was
> gradually absorbed and "Vedantized"
> 
> -- 
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
> It's a boy! See the pictures -
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