[Advaita-l] Teachings on the Vijaya Yatra - Sri Adi Shankaracharya’s Timeless Teachings

[Shashwata Shastri]

Namaste to All,
My post or threads are not showing up for some reasons. Where can I find
the VigyAnamrita BhAshya? (Done by Vigyan Bhikshu). Sorry for the sudden
intrusion.
Best Regards,
Shashwata

On Sat, May 18, 2019, 04:26 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 7:11 AM S Jayanarayanan via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > S Jayanarayanan sjayana at yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > If someone is wondering why HH often teaches about developing "Good
> > Qualities":
> >
> > It is because the development of Good Qualities results in the removal of
> > bad Vasanas and tendencies that obstruct
> > the True Nature of the Self. Thus, the practising Saattvic tendencies
> > ultimately leads to Self-Realization.
> >
> > The Gautama Dharma Sutra lists eight qualities called "Atma-guNAH" that
> > are a pre-requisite to Moksha:
> >
> > https://www.prekshaa.in/eight-atma-gunas-gautama-dharma-sutras-part1
> >
> > https://www.prekshaa.in/eight-atma-gunas-gautama-dharma-sutras-part2
> >
> > 1. Dayā (Compassion)
> > 2. Kṣānti (Forbearance)
> > 3. Anasūyā (Lack of Envy)
> > 4. Śauca (Purity)
> > 5. Anāyāsa (Tranquility)
> > 6. Maṅgala (Auspiciousness)
> > 7. Akārpaṇya (Lack of Greed)
> > 8. Aspṛha (Lack of Covetousness)
> >
> > In fact, Gautama goes so far as to say that the above qualities are
> > practically synonymous with Moksha:
> >
> >   "He who is sanctified by these forty sacraments, but whose soul is
> > destitute of the eight good qualities,
> >   will not be united with Brahman, nor does he reach his heaven."
> >   "But he who is sanctified by a few only of these forty sacraments, and
> > whose soul is endowed
> >   with the eight excellent qualities, will be united with Brahman, and
> > will dwell in his heaven."
> >
>
> It is indeed exalting that the Gautama Dharma Sutras are actually proposing
> 'Brahma vaada':
>
> If these *saṃskāra*s take place in the proper order, the performer attains
> internal purity and attains the mental framework for the pursuit of
> philosophy – this is a commonly accepted notion. However, Gautama
> says, ‘*Yasyaite
> catvāriṃśatsaṃskārā na cāṣṭāvātmaguṇā na sa brahmaṇaḥ sāyujyaṃ sālokyaṃ
> gacchati*’ (GDS 1.8.25) – ‘one who has undergone all the forty *saṃskāra*s
> but lacks the eight *ātma-guṇa*s will not attain either oneness with
> *brahman* or proximity to the divine.’ Further, he declares, ‘*Yasya tu
> khalu saṃskārāṇām ekadeśo’pyaṣṭāvātmaguṇā atha sa brahmaṇaḥ sāyujyaṃ
> sālokyaṃ cagacchati gacchati*’ (1.8.26) – ‘one who has undergone but a few
> of the forty *saṃskāra*s but is endowed with the eight *ātma-guṇa*s attains
> oneness with *brahman* or proximity to the divine.” This is a magnanimous
> pronouncement that instils hope among people of all varṇas as well as
> people outside the *varṇa* framework, who might not have undergone any of
> the sixteen *saṃskāra*s (let alone forty).
>
> Shankara has expressed his immense respect to Gautama in the Brahma sutra
> bhashya 1.1.4 by referring to him as 'Acharya':  तथा च आचार्यप्रणीतं
> न्यायोपबृंहितं
> सूत्रम् — ‘दुःखजन्मप्रवृत्तिदोषमिथ्याज्ञानानामुत्तरोत्तरापाये
> तदनन्तरापायादपवर्गः’ (न्या. सू. १ ।………
>
> Some historians have identified the Gautama of the nyaya sutras and dharma
> sutras as the same individual.
>
> regards
> subrahmanian.v
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >
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