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

[Sujal Upadhyay via Advaita-l]

Thank you Shri Subramaniam ji, as always, for explanation

Kind Regards

OM

Sujal Upadhyay

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nothing but unhappiness" - Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Sujal Upadhyay <sujal.u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Namaste Subramaniam ji,
> >
> > Thank you for the article. BG 9.25 Sankara bhASya also contains the word
> > 'vinAyaka'. I think Sridhara Swami and Madhusudan Saraswati has also used
> > the word 'sinAyaka'. Swami Sivananada's commentary clarifies that this
> > vinAyaka-s (plural) are jIva-s  higher than humans and lower than devA-s.
> > Same is the case with mAtrikA-s.
> >
> > Please shed some light on this too.
> >
>
>
> Thank you Sri Sujal for the clue that I got from your reference to Swami
> Sivananda's commentary where the plural 'vināyakāḥ' is mentioned.  Upon a
> search I found that the Agnipurāṇam has this listed as some bhūta entities:
>
> ये कुष्णाण्डास्तथा यक्षा ये दैत्या ये निशाचराः ।
> प्रेता विनायकाः क्रूरा मनुष्या जम्भगाः खगाः ।। २७०.९ ।।
>
> The Srimadbhāgavatam too has a reference:
>
> 10.6.27 where the baby Krishna is 'purified' by the Gopi-s after the
> killing of Pūtana:
>
> http://prabhupadabooks.com/sb/10/6/27-29
>
> Here one gets information on the mātṛkā-s too that Shankara refers there.
>
>
>
> "राक्षसाश्च पिसाचाश्च भूतानि च विनायकाः॥
>
>
>
> http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar/en/shiva-sutra-vimarshini-iii-23-33-trika-scriptures-non-dual-shaivism-of-kashmir/557
> उक्तं श्रीमालिनीविजये
>
> वासनामात्रलाभेऽपि योऽप्रमत्तो न जायते।
> तमनित्येषु भोगेषु योजयन्ति विनायकाः॥
> तस्मान्न तेषु संसक्तिं कुर्वीतोत्तमवाञ्छया।
>
> Here the 'vināyakāḥ' are said to immerse man in bhoga-s and therefore one
> aught not to get involved in them (vināyakāḥ).
>
> The mālinīvijayaṁ appears to be a tantra work.
>
> Shankaracharya is referring to these entities when he commented in the BG
> 9.25 for the term 'bhūta-s'.
>
> regards
>
> subrahmanian.v
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hari OM
> >
> >
> > Sujal
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:58 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Here is an article on the reference to Rudra and Āditya in the
> >> Bhagavadgītā
> >> bhāṣyam 6.47 by Shankaracharya:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.mediafire.com/download/610a95362eprvy3/Reference+to+Rudra+and+%C4%80ditya+in+the+Bh.g.pdf
> >>
> >> subrahmanian.v
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