[Advaita-l] Bhakti and Jnana

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Incidentally this verse is also among the rare verses of the Bhagavad Gita (available in the 745-verses version).

Regards,

Sunil KB



________________________________
 From: V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
To: rajaramvenk at gmail.com; A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> 
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Bhakti and Jnana
 
While looking for references in the Upanishads for the concept of 'bhakti'
as connected with 'jnanam' this is a useful one from the Kaivalya Upanishad:

अचिन्त्यमव्यक्तमनन्तरूपं शिवं प्रशान्तममृतं ब्रह्मयोनिम् ।
तथा ऽऽदिमध्यान्तविहीनमेकं विभुं चिदानन्दमरूपमद्भुतम् ।।६।।
7
उमासहायं परमेश्वरं प्रभुं त्रिलोचनं नीलकण्ठं प्रशान्तम् ।
ध्यात्वा मुनिर्गच्छति भूतयोनिं समस्तसाक्षिं तमसः परस्तात् ।।७।।
8
स ब्रह्मा स शिवः सेन्द्रः सो ऽक्षरः परमः स्वराट् ।
स एव विष्णुः स प्राणः स कालो ऽग्निः स चन्द्रमाः ॥८॥

Here the 7th one is very useful to trace the saguNa bhakti culminating in
NirguNa jnanam.

subrahmanian.v
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