[Advaita-l] Is Badarayana same as Vyasa?

[V Subrahmanian]

Shankara cites Gaudapada as 'sampradaya vit acharya' twice in the BSB
itself:

 तथा च सम्प्रदायविदो वदन्ति — ‘मृल्लोहविस्फुलिङ्गाद्यैः सृष्टिर्या
चोदितान्यथा । उपायः सोऽवताराय नास्ति भेदः कथञ्चन’ (मा. का. ३ । १५)
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 इति BSB  1.4.14

अत्रोक्तं वेदान्तार्थसम्प्रदायविद्भिराचार्यैः — ‘ अनादिमायया सुप्तो यदा
जीवः प्रबुध्यते । अजमनिद्रमस्वप्नमद्वैतं बुध्यते तदा’ (मा. का. १ । १६)
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 इति ।   BSB 2.1.9

Shankara refers to Bhagavan Krishna himself as the 'originator of the
Vedanta Sampradaya', taking the lineage of Advaita Vedanta to the Lord
himself:

वेदार्थसम्प्रदायमाविष्कुर्वता प्रोक्ता ..BGB 3.3      वेदान्तकृत्
वेदान्तार्थसम्प्रदायकृत् इत्यर्थः, वेदवित् वेदार्थवित् एव च अहम् ॥ १५ ॥……… BGB
15.15

Again, the very pillar of Vedanta, Shankara calls, is from the sampradaya:  तथा
हि सम्प्रदायविदां वचनम् — ‘अध्यारोपापवादाभ्यां निष्प्रपञ्चं प्रपञ्च्यते’ (
? ) इति………   BGB 13.13

In BGB 18.50 Shankara pities those who are without the guru-sampradaya as
those who will not reach the goal:   एवं गुरुसम्प्रदायरहितानाम्
अश्रुतवेदान्तानाम् अत्यन्तबहिर्विषयासक्तबुद्धीनां सम्यक्प्रमाणेषु
अकृतश्रमाणाम् ...
And this is the very prayer of the aspirants of Brahmavidya that Shankara
cites at the very beginning of the Br.Up.Bhashya:
ओं नमो ब्रह्मादिभ्यो ब्रह्मविद्यासम्प्रदायकर्तृभ्यो वंशऋषिभ्यो नमो गुरुभ्यः
Even a story of yore, Shankara acknowledges, in Br.up.Bh: 2.1.20, is from
the sampradaya:  अत्र च सम्प्रदायविद आख्यायिकां सम्प्रचक्षते — कश्चित्किल
राजपुत्रः जातमात्र एव मातापितृभ्यामपविद्धः व्याधगृहे...
Again a word of pity for those bereft of sampradaya, varna-ashrama dharma:
 ते तु कुतर्कदूषितान्तःकरणाः ब्राह्मणादिवर्णापशदाः अनुकम्पनीयाः
आगमार्थविच्छिन्नसम्प्रदायबुद्धय इति ।   Br.up.Bh: 2.1.20
Chandogya 8.14.1: Another acknowledgement of the Vedanta sampradaya from
the earliest period:  तद्धैतत् आत्मज्ञानं सोपकरणम् ‘ओमित्येतदक्षरम्’
इत्याद्यैः सहोपासनैः तद्वाचकेन ग्रन्थेन अष्टाध्यायीलक्षणेन सह ब्रह्मा
हिरण्यगर्भः परमेश्वरो वा तद्द्वारेण प्रजापतये कश्यपाय उवाच ; असावपि मनवे
स्वपुत्राय ; मनुः प्रजाभ्यः इत्येवं श्रुत्यर्थसम्प्रदायपरम्परयागतम्
उपनिषद्विज्ञानम्
अद्यापि विद्वत्सु अवगम्यते ।

In the Mandukya karika 4th chapter, Shankara says Gaudapada pays obeisance
to the Advaita Acharya, Narayana, who initiated the Vedanta sampradaya:
तत्राद्वैतदर्शनसम्प्रदायकर्तुरद्वैतस्वरूपेणैव नमस्कारार्थोऽयमाद्यश्लोकः ।
आचार्यपूजा हि अभिप्रेतार्थसिद्ध्यर्थेष्यते शास्त्रारम्भे ।

Thus we see Shankara accords the utmost importance to the proper lineage,
the study, the dissemination of knowledge, the receiving of that knowledge,
etc. as the hallmark of genuine sampradaya.

vs




On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Praveen R. Bhat <bhatpraveen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ​Thats a very weak argument trying to support any kind of thinking perhaps
> under the garb of being  modern and scientific  to replace sampradAya.
> vyAkaraNa, mImAMsA and ​nyAya, all are part of sampradAya! The plain
> reading of prayer will tell you that it is a prayer to the Gurus of the
> tradition who used these as tools to lead others to the truth as taught in
> the sampradAya. Perhaps your sensible man who doesn't accept it is himself
> outside the sampradAya, else he would know that Panini also accepts nipAtas
> and many words fall under sAdhuprayoga due to that or by bAhulyam,
> pRShodarAdIni yathopadiShTam, etc.
>
> The tradition may not be a perfect interpreter since it is trying to
> convey the non-conveyable, but it is better than all the self-styled
> interpreters out there put together, who couldn't tell head from tail in
> most cases and there goal is definitely not mokSha, due to
> ardhajaratIyanyAya.
>
> ​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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