[Advaita-l] Regarding the Pancharatra, Shankara is one with Purvamimamsa

[Kalyan]

 I am not sure what is your point. 
Not only sankhya, but other schools of vedanta like bhedabheda, dvaita,v-advaita also accept that there are many selves. 
What I want to point out here is that there is no unanimity on whether the MB (or even Shrutis) are teaching one self or many selves. So I am  not sure why sankhya alone is being specially pointed out.


    On Thursday, July 19, 2018, 3:15:40 PM GMT+5:30, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 

2018-07-19 13:49 GMT+05:30 Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com>:

 //Thus Shankara clearly brings out the idea that the Mahabharata is not upholding the Kapila's doctrine of many selves. //


http://www.sacred-texts.com/ hin/m12/m12c050.htm


"Rudra said, 'Self-born thou art. ***Many are the Purushas that have been created by thee***. Others again, O Brahma, are being created by thee. The Infinite Purusha, however, of whom thou speakest, is one and single. Who is that ***foremost of Purushas***, O Brahma, that is being meditated by thee? 




"Brahma said, 'O son, ***many are those Purushas of whom thou speakest***. The one Purusha, however, of whom I am thinking, ***transcends all Purushas*** and is invisible. 


The ***many Purushas*** that exist in the universe have that one Purusha as their basis; and since that one Purushas is said to be the source ***whence all the innumerable Purushas have sprung***, hence all the latter, if they succeed in divesting themselves of attributes, become competent to enter into that one Purusha who is identified with the universe, who is supreme, who is the foremost of the foremost, who is eternal, and who is himself divested of and is above all attributes."
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Vaisampayana said, In the speculations of the ***Sankhya and the Yoga*** systems ***many Purushas*** have been spoken of, O jewel of Kuru's race. 

 
The catch is here:  // speculations of the ***Sankhya and the Yoga*** systems ***many Purushas*** have been spoken of, // It is the speculation.    And here:
//The ***many Purushas*** that exist in the universe have that //one Purusha as their basis; and since that one Purushas is said to be the source//   ***whence all the innumerable Purushas have sprung***, hence all the latter,// if they succeed in divesting themselves of attributes, //become competent to enter into that one Purusha who is identified with the universe, who is supreme, who is the foremost of the foremost, who is eternal, and who is himself divested of and is above all attributes."///
This is the Advaita of one purusha.