[Advaita-l] Aparna Name of Parvati

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Namaste,

Thanks for the clarification.

Regarsd,
Sunil KB



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 From: V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

Namaste,
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>Food is taken from a plate and Aparna may then also mean that she did not eat any food during her tapasya.
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>Regards,
>Sunil KB
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Sunil ji, 

The idea behind saying 'she did not eat even leaves' is that during tapsya, as shown in the Dhruva episode in the Bhagavatam, one starts with eating solid food like fruits from trees and gradually gives up that and eats only leaves and goes on to sustain just on dried leaves fallen from trees and then give up even that and so on.  In this context the word 'aparNA' has been interpreted to mean that she was so devoted to the tapasyA that she had surpassed the stage of even eating leaves.  It is not a reference to eating off leaf as is done while food is served on plantain leaf or any other suitable one.  

Regards
subrahmanian.v  


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>Namaste,
>Aparna also means she did not eat even a leaf during her Tapasya.
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