[Advaita-l] varNAsharama system at the time of shankara

[Anbu sivam2]

People argue on what they* want *to agrue. Karma is kama driven.  Arguing is
karma too!

Our scriptures clearly say 'Tat Tvam Asi'.  It would not have said it if you
didn't have the right to know.  'Tvam' does not exclude anyone.  It is an
unconditional 'Tvam'!

Anbu

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:46 AM, latha vidyaranya <lathavidya at yahoo.co.in>
wrote:

> hari om
> namaste
>
> people generally seem to nurse a notion that the vedaadhikaaris have their
> path to realization paved smooth than the shudraas and stree-s, who have to
> take a circuitous path through the smruthis and puraanaas and there seems to
> be less hope for them to reach the ultimate destination, until they take
> many more janmaas................
>
> why smruthis and puraanaas, even a simple shloka like the "nirvaana shatka"
> of bhagavadpaada sri shankara ("mano budhyahankaara chithaadi
> naaham............"), when deeply meditated over its meaning, has the
> capacity to cleanse ones antahkarana and the Truth can shine there.
>
> namaste
>
> --- On Mon, 16/6/08, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:
>
> From: Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com>
> Subject: [Advaita-l] varNAsharama system at the time of shankara
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Date: Monday, 16 June, 2008, 11:21 AM
>
> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> When searching for Sri VidyA prabhuji's quote on AnimAdi siddhi-s (subtle
> powers) of yOgi-s, I found that it appears in the shankara's commentary on
> dEvatAdhikaraNa  of vEdAnta sUtra (1-3-26 to 1-3-33) wherein discussion was
> about whether dEvata-s have eligibility to attain brahmajnAna or
> not....While reading through bhAshya on 1-3-33, I've observed one important
> assertion of shankara that is about system of varNAshrama dharma existing
> at  that point of time...Here shankara implies that at that time
> varNashrama system was not strictly in order..Shankara says here :
> idAnImIva cha kAlAntarepi avyavasThita prAyAn varNAshrama dharmAn
> pratijAnIta, tatascha vyavasThAvidAyi shAstraM anarThakaM syAt...Inspite of
> this avyasTha of varNashrama system, shankara in the very next adhikaraNa
> talks about vedAdhikara to non-dvija-s & stree-s & clears his stand
> that
> though sUdra-s & stree-s donot have adhikAra in vEda-s, they are eligible
> to have vEdAntic Atmaikatva jnAna through smruti & purANa texts...
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
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