[Advaita-l] concluding sloka of siddhAnta bindu

Swami Sarvabhutananda swami.sarvabhutananda at gmail.com
Tue Apr 30 08:14:08 CDT 2013


OM
BrahmasUtrA (ie) chatussUtri is from VEDA VYASA.
It is in the form of sUtrAs and the bhAshyA is from ShankarA.
Swami sarvabhutananda.


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Venkata sriram P
<venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>wrote:

> 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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