[Advaita-l] Reference to Rudra and Aditya in BGB 6.47

[Sujal Upadhyay via Advaita-l]

Thank you for clarification :)

OM

Sujal Upadhyay

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nothing but unhappiness" - Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Sujal Upadhyay wrote:
>
>  Namaste,
>>
>> Regarding the discussion, there is one more verse in BG 11.15 which
>> describes virATa svarUpa of bhagavAn. Here, Adi SankarAcArya in his bhASya
>> has not translated the word 'ISa' as Siva, while rAmAnujAcArya has. It
>> would
>> be interesting to know the commentaries of other AcArya-s. mAdvAcArya and
>> Abhinavagupta has not commented on this verse. Other AcArya-s like
>> Valliabhacharya, Madhusudan Saraswati, Shreedhar Swami, Nilkantha, etc
>> have
>> not written the word Siva. Still, we can have a look at it. Please also
>> check Anandgiri's bhashya. Since I am not conversant with sanskrit, I
>> request you to please have a look.
>>
>>
> It quite clearly refers to Brahmaji as the lord (creator) of the world
> seated on the kamala etc. and it would seem rather difficult to interpret
> it as anything else.  Hence Shridharacharya, Swami Shankarananda and Swami
> Madhusudan Saraswati in their tikas only mention Brahmaji.
>
> On the other hand, 10.23 says rudrANAm sha~NkarashchAsmi.  Shankaracharya
> modestly avoids making any connection with his name and merely mentions
> that there are 11 rudras.  None of the others explicitly mention Shiva
> Bhagavan either.
>
>
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