[Advaita-l] Doubt in Isha Upanishad

[Srirudra]

Dear
This Manthra is always recited as an invocation.As such removed/ taken away will be more illuminating for the word adaya .The other meaning also is suitable but the first one is more appropriate is my thinking.R.Krishnamoorthy.

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> On 14-Feb-2014, at 6:24 pm, "Br. Pranipata Chaitanya" <pranipata at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> In the Shanti Mantra of Isha Upanishad,
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>> *purnam adah, purnam idam purnat purnam udachyate; purnasya purnam adaya
>> purnam evavasisyate*
>> The term "adaaya" is everywhere interpreted as "removed/taken away". But,
>> Shankaracharya translates it as "understood/realized".
>> 
>> i.e. When the Completeness of the Jagat is realized, Completeness alone
>> remains.
>> 
>> Can anyone shed more light on this?
>> 
>> Nithin
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> Hari Om Shri Nithinji, Pranaams!
> 
> While the mantra is occurring as invocation in IshA, AcAryaji has not commented but while occuring in bRIhadAraNyaka as mantra V.1.1. 
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> You will see that AcAryaji has not taken a different meaning than 'removed/taken away'.
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> In Shri Guru Smriti,
> Br. Pranipata Chaitanya 
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