[Advaita-l] concluding sloka of siddhAnta bindu

[Swami Sarvabhutananda]

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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