[Advaita-l] Gayatri mantra

[Raghav Kumar]

the word yonaH does not mean "womb" in any dictionary i have, not to speak
of this word not figuring in Gayatri mantra. "Yona" means "soldier" !!


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Raghav Kumar <raghavkumar00 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Om Sriram garu and others
>
> the word yonaH does not seem to figure in any dictionary i have. I am
> really surprised how anyone can talk of yonaH or some womb etc and that too
> in the Gayatri mantra. Thank you Sri Venkata Sriram ji for your
> clarifications
>
> Raghav
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ramakrishna Upadrasta <
> uramakrishna at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> namaste Sriram Garu,
>>
>> 2011/8/11 Venkata sriram P <venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>:
>> > Here is what sAyaNa bhAshya says:
>>
>> Thank you for writing this. My praNAms to you.
>>
>>
>>
>> > When the basic foundation itself is wrong,
>> > there is no use in studying vyAkaraNa & Sankara Bhashyas.
>>
>> I totally agree with you. Reading the writings of the poster on this
>> list reminds the following from nItishataka:
>>
>> aGYaH sukhamaaraadhyaH sukhataramaaraadhyate visheshhaGYaH .
>> GYaanalavadurvigdhaM brahmaapi naraM na ra~njayati .. 3..
>>
>> namaste
>> Ramakrishna
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