[Advaita-l] Adi Sankaracharya's bhashyas

[Mahadevan Babu]

Dear Michaelji,
IMHO, under such conditions of limited scope to prove eitherway, I  
believe the Shradha plays its important role - being " Guru VedAntha  
VakyEshu VishvasaH ".

I just follow what my Acharyals says and that Pramanam is good enough.
I heard the same story a while ago, when a very learned scholar said  
that he didn't believe Viveka Chudamani was written by Sri Adi  
Shankara as well.

When H.H.Chandrashekara Bharathi Swamigal has written the commentary  
for the above and affirms the author of Viveka Chudamani to Sri Adi  
Shankara, I don't need any more authority (Pramanam).

Of course, sometimes it is very nice to transport oneself to the  
framework of the author to get the real essence (Bhava) as well.

Regards

Dev Babu


On 26/06/2009, at 4:14 AM, Michael Shepherd wrote:

> Sunilji,
>
> This is not a response from a learned scholar --  but from one who has
> wrestled with the opinions of a multitude of scholars...:
>
> Two facts about Adi Shankara's writings are incontrovertible :
>
> 1) There is no conclusive proof that Adi Shankara wrote any of the  
> bhashya
> attributed to him;
>
> 2) There is no conclusive proof that Adi Shankara did not write any  
> of the
> bhashya attributed to him..
>
> Michael :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> [mailto:advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org]On Behalf Of Sunil
> Bhattacharjya
> Sent: 25 June 2009 11:16
> To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Adi Sankaracharya's bhashyas
>
>
>
> Dear friends,
>
> To my understanding Adi Sankaracharya  wrote sixteen bhashyas, the  
> first
> being on the Vishnu Sahasranama and the last being on the Lalita  
> Trishati.
> The second and the thrid were on the Bhagavad gita and the  
> Sarirakasutra
> rsepectively  and the rest of the twelve included  the eleven pada- 
> bhashyas
> and one vakya-bhshya on the eleven Upanishads. Any comments from the  
> learned
> scholars?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
>
>
>
>
>
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