[Advaita-l] Who Is the Ultimate GOD in Vedic dharma ?

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
>
> Indra did not do respectable actions. Like he kept on disturbing Rishis
> doing Tapas by sending Apsaras to  break the Brahmacharya. He also did
> adultery with Gautama Rishi's wife Ahalya. Therefore Indra cannot be
> Supreme Brahman.
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Somewhere I read an altogether different interpretation than the usual one,
of the Ahalya episode. Be it so. In the Kaivalyopanishat we have:

स ब्रह्मा स शिवः सेन्द्रः सोऽक्षरः परमः स्वराट् | स एव विष्णुः स प्राणः स
कालोऽग्निः स चन्द्रमाः || 8 ||

Shankara cites this mantra in the Vishnu Sahasra Nama bhashya saying that
this is a teaching of abheda.  We find Indra and Agni too here.  Also in
the famous:

ओ३म् इन्द्रं मित्रं वरुणमग्निमाहुरथो दिव्य: स सुपर्णो गरुत्मान् |. एकं
सद्विप्रा बहुधा वदन्त्यग्निं यमं मातरिश्वानमाहु: ||. ऋग्वेद १/१६४/४६ ||
 mantra we have a list including Agni, Indra and so on.

regards
subbu



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