[Advaita-l] DSV in Saundaryalahari

[V Subrahmanian]

Nicely stated, Praveen ji,

In the Lalitāsahasranāma the name: उन्मेषनिमिषोत्पन्नविपन्नभुवनावलिः occurs
in the same sense. There is a prakriyā क्षणे क्षणॆ सृष्टिः, क्षणे क्षणे लयः.

regards
subbu

2017-08-18 12:28 GMT+05:30 Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>:

> Namaste,
>
> Under the verse 54 of Saundaryalahari which goes so:
>
> निमेषोन्मेषाभ्यां प्रलयमुदयं याति जगती
> तवेत्याहुः सन्तो धरणिधरराजन्यतनये ।
> त्वदुन्मेषाज्जातं जगदिदमशेषं प्रलयतः
> परित्रातुं शङ्के परिहृतनिमेषास्तव दृशः॥५५॥
>
> हे धरणिधरराजन्यतनये, "तव निमेषोन्मेषाभ्यां जगती प्रलयमुदयं याति" इति सन्तः
> आहुः। त्वदुन्मेषात् जातमशेषम् इदम् जगत् प्रलयतः परित्रातुं तव दृशः
> परिहृतनिमेषाः भवन्ति इति अहं शङ्के।
>
> O daughter of the king of mountains, the saints declare that the world
> attains dissolution and creation due to closing and opening your eyes,
> respectively. I suspect that you have stopped closing your eyes to protect
> this entire world, that was born due to opening your eyes, lest it attain
> destruction.
>
> लक्ष्मिधरा commentary says:
> दृष्टिसृष्टिवादिमते ज्ञानव्यतिरेकेण ज्ञेयाभावात्
> निमेषोन्मेषाभ्यामित्युक्तेः आञ्जस्यमिति ध्येयम्। Due to the absence of the
> knowable [world] other than the knowledge/ cognition, in the view of DSV
> follower, the meaning "immediately" should be understood from the word
> "due-to-blinking".
>
> ​gurupAdukAbhyAm
> ,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
> That owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
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