[Advaita-l] Fwd: SIDDHANTA KAUMADI

[V Subrahmanian]

The 'HarimeeDe stotram' or 'Hari stuti' is a work admitted by all as that
of Shankaracharya.  It is full of Vedanta vichara. It also has a
commentary. Here Shankara says:
https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_vishhnu/harimIDestotra.html?lang=sa


ब्रह्मा विष्णू रुद्रहुताशौ रविचन्द्राविन्द्रो वायुर्यम इतीत्थं *परिकल्प्य* ।
एकं सन्तं यं बहुधाहुर्मतिभेदात् तं संसारध्वान्तविनाशं हरिमीडे ॥ १८॥


[Having 'parikalpya' (one can give whichever translation that pleases
one for this word) 'brahmaa, vishnu, rudra, agni, surya, chandra,
indra, vayu, yama - people say variously according to their own
intellects - that which is One. That One Hari who is the destroyer of
samsara, I bow to.]  Thus, when the names are parikalpita, it follows
that the forms are also so.

Shankara has cited the mantra 'ekam sat vipraah bahudhaa vadanti' and
similar ones in the bhashyas including the Vishnu sahasra nama.


Om Tat Sat






On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 10:16 AM Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> praNAms Sri Raghava prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> Yes, sometimes it appears quite amusing for me after seeing over dose of
> Advaita making everything as kalpita including trimuthy-s, deva-devata-s
> etc.  But at the same time pain to see Advaita heading towards nireeshwara
> vAda.  If you could check the mails in subject heading :  "Names such as
> 'Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva' are mithyopadhika - Vishnu Puranam"  you will
> come to know background of my below message.  BTW, even in DSV there is a
> provision to think about Ishwara srushti.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
>
>
> Namaste Bhaskarji
> I assume you are just joking. Because I have not seen any advaitin claim
> that objects like chairs and tables have a greater degree of reality than
> Ganesha etc. If you have any quotation by anyone to the effect that "chairs
> etc have vyAvahArika sattA while Ganesha does not being purely imaginary or
> derived and hence not available for any transactions ", kindly quote it.
>
>  Because in Brahma sutras devatAdhikaraNam, bhAShyakAra has asserted that
> devatAs are vigrahavantaH and that in earlier times some riShis etc could
> directly communicate with them .
>
> Maybe you are implying DSV, but even there chairs etc., are of the same
> sattA as devatAs.
>
>
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