[Advaita-l] About Satyakama

[Aurobind Padiyath]

Are you reading any English translation? You may go through the following
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http://www.rkmissionkhetri.org/news/?p=131

https://youtu.be/67nE0-vjLUY

http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Satyakama_Jabala_was_born_of_a_maidservant,_but_wanted_to_become_a_brahmana,_and_so_he_approached_Gautama_Muni_for_initiation

Aurobind
On 26 Jun 2016 23:10, "Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016, Shashwata Shastri wrote:
>
> Thank you for your answers. I think that is why she was named as Jabala.
>> Because of her inconstant and agog nature.
>>
>>
> And Satyakama "he who desires truth" is also an allegorical name.  As
> Shankaracharya notes, the point of telling this story is to eulogize
> shraddha and tapa (which includes always speaking the truth) as angas of
> brahmopasana.
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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