[Advaita-l] Brahman is 'avaachya' by any name: Vishnu Puranam

[sreenivasa murthy]

 Dear Sri Subramanian,Mantra 1-5 of Kena Upanishad states thus :yad vAcAnaByuditam    yEna  vAgaBudyatE |tadEva brahma tvaM viddhi   nEdaM yadidamupAsatE ||
When  in  such  a  simple  and  direct  way  Sruti  points  
out  The  Truth, in  one's own anuBava
where  is  the  need  to  go into  all  the  explanations  
and  quotations  which  are  being  given  in  your  e-mail 
and  study  them? 
Is  it  not  better  for  a  student  to  limit  one's  study 
to  upanishads  instead  of  studying  innumerable  texts  
and commentaries  on them?To  know  2X3=6 how many text books  need  be studied?Is  not  one  text  book enough?
I may  please  be  pardoned  for  sharing  my  thoughtswhen  your  posting was  being  read.Please  correct  me  if  I  am  wrong.  
With  respectful  namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy

    On Wednesday, 24 April, 2019, 11:29:00 pm IST, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
 In the Vishnu Puranam occurs the concept of 'no name being possible for
Brahman':

न यत्र नाथ विद्यन्ते *नामजात्यादिकल्पनाः* ।
तदू ब्रह्म परमं नित्यमविकारि भवानजः ।। ५-१८-५३ ।।

O Lord, where name, genus, etc. imaginations are not there, that Supreme
Brahman is immutable, unborn, are You.

This very idea has been stated by Shankara in the BGB 13.12:

ज्ञेयं यत्तत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वामृतमश्नुते ।
अनादिमत्परं ब्रह्म न सत्तन्नासदुच्यते ॥ १२ ॥

सर्वो हि शब्दः अर्थप्रकाशनाय प्रयुक्तः, श्रूयमाणश्च श्रोतृभिः,
जातिक्रियागुणसम्बन्धद्वारेण सङ्केतग्रहणसव्यपेक्षः अर्थं प्रत्याययति ; न
अन्यथा, अदृष्टत्वात् । तत् यथा — ‘गौः’ ‘अश्वः’ इति वा जातितः, ‘पचति’ ‘पठति’
इति वा क्रियातः, ‘शुक्लः’ ‘कृष्णः’ इति वा गुणतः, ‘धनी’ ‘गोमान्’ इति वा
सम्बन्धतः । न तु ब्रह्म जातिमत् , अतः न सदादिशब्दवाच्यम् । नापि गुणवत् ,
येन गुणशब्देन उच्येत, निर्गुणत्वात् । नापि क्रियाशब्दवाच्यं
निष्क्रियत्वात् ‘निष्कलं
निष्क्रियं शान्तम्’ (श्वे. उ. ६ । १९)
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इति
श्रुतेः । न च सम्बन्धी, एकत्वात् । अद्वयत्वात् अविषयत्वात् आत्मत्वाच्च न
केनचित् शब्देन उच्यते इति युक्तम् ; ‘यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते’ (तै. उ. २ । ९ । १)
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इत्यादिश्रुतिभिश्च
॥ १२ ॥
One may consult the Swami Gambhirananda or any other translation.

For the following verse there, Sridhara Swamin says:

न कल्पनामृतेऽर्थस्य सर्व्वस्याधिगमो यतः ।
ततः कृष्णाच्युतानन्तबिष्णुसंज्ञाभिरीडयसे ।। ५-१८-५४ ।।

Without imagination, no sense can be grasped. Therefore, You are praised by
names such as Krishna, Achyuta, Anantha, Vishnu....

Commentary: मायया अनन्तनामत्वमाह -    The Lord gets infinite names by
maayaa.

Om Tat Sat
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