[Advaita-l] Misinformation about Advaita/Advaitins

[Sujal Upadhyay via Advaita-l]

Namaste,

To add to above and as pointed out by Kollam ji, In VS BhAshya, while
explaining the words 1 and 2, there is a long commentary.

In page 64 of Gita Press, Sanskrit - Hindi Translation, Adi Sankara
confirms one has to worship viShNu as chidAtmA / AtmarUpa quoting
mahAbhArata karmakANDa

Sanskrit:

आत्मानं विष्णुं ध्यात्वार्चन - स्तुतिनमस्कारादि कर्तव्यम् ।
'नाविष्णुः कीर्त्तयेद् विष्णुं नाविष्णुर्विष्णुमर्चयेत् ।
नाविष्णुः संस्मरेद् विष्णुं नाविष्णुर्विष्णुमाप्नुयात् ॥

In Hindi it is translated as

' बिना विष्णुरुप हुए विष्णुका कीर्तन न करे, बिना विष्णु हुए विष्णुका पूजन न
करे, बिना विष्णु हुए विष्णुका स्मरण न करे और न बिना विष्णु हुए विष्णुको
प्राप्त हो । '

This pujA (worship), stuti (praise) and namaskArAdi (offering respect /
reverence / salutation or worship) is to be meditated upon (chintan) viShNu
[bhagavAn] as AtmarUpa. In mahAbhArata karma kANDa, it is said - without
being / becoming viShNu do not do kirtan (sing holy glories) of viShNu,
without beingbecoming viShNu do not perform pUjA (worship) viShNu, without
becoming viShNu one does not attain viShNu'

Note: Becoming means to have a bhAva that 'I ma not different from viShNu'
it is an attitude of feeling non-difference from viShNu [tatva] which is
noting but Atmatatva.

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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:22 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:24 PM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Namaste
> >
> > In the URL hereunder are some points related to Advaita and Shankara.
> > Since the file is quite lengthy I am not posting it  in this forum.
> Those
> > interested may please visit this URL and read the material posted there:
> >
> > MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ADVAITA AND SHANKARA AND THEIR CORRECTION
> > <
> http://adbhutam.wordpress.com/misconceptions-about-advaita-and-shankara-and-their-correction/
> >
> >
>
> Here is another update on the above thread:
>
> Please visit this URL too for more explanations of specific Advaitic
> concepts:
>
>
> https://adbhutam.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=659&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2
>
> regardss
> subrahmanian.v
>
> >
> >
> >
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