[Advaita-l] concluding sloka of siddhAnta bindu
Venkata sriram P
venkatasriramp at yahoo.in
Tue Apr 30 07:12:46 CDT 2013
Namaste,
In the concluding verse of “siddhAnta bindu”, Sri Madhusudana Saraswati says that:
na staumi taM vyAsaM ashESamarthaM
samyak na sUtrairapi yO babandha
vina(a)pitaiH saMgrathitAkhilArthaM
taM shankaraM naumi surEshwaraM cha
The rough translation :
Sri Veda Vyasa didn’t frame the essence of the vEdAnta while writing brahmasUtrAs.
Hence, I would not extol him. But, so be it ! Acharya Sankara has blessed us with His
prasthAna-traya bhASya and Sureshwara blessed us with beautiful vArtikA.
So, I would extol Acharya Sankara and Sureshwara for bestowing us the essence of
vEdAnta in the form of advaita and vArtika and not vEda vyAsa.
Is it a nindA stuti directed towards vEda vyAsa that the brahmasUtrAs, infact,
point towards advaita siddhAnta ?
In what way we should under the above sloka?
regs,
sriram
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