[Advaita-l] Was Bhishma ashamed of speaking of the glories and 1000 names of Shiva?

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

I heard Tippu Sultan's minister Poorniah was a Madhva and he was against
Advaitis in his time and he tried to harass them with power given by Tippu.
Is it correct?

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:02 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> In the Bharatamanjari, Kshemendra of 11th Century CE, at this juncture has
> composed this shloka as being said by Bhishma:
>
> हरिरेव हरं वेत्ति हरो वेत्ति तथा हरिम् |
>
> एकैव मूर्तिरनयोः कारणाद्द्वैतमाश्रिता ||
>
> [Hari alone knows Hara and Hara alone knows Hari. One Murti, form, entity,
> alone of these two, Hari and Hara, has, for a reason, taken two forms.] He
> uses the word 'dvaitam' for the purpose.
>
> Thus we see that ancient Vedantins, naturally Advaitins, alone have
> demonstrated such a correct understanding of Veda Vyasa's intent.
> Non-Vedantins who are sectarians will find the above idea reprehensible.
> NilakanTha's comments also depict the way of the sampradaya Acharyas.
> Kshemendra's words find authenticity in none other's words than that of
> Veda Vyasa himself:
>
> रुद्रो नारायणश्चैव सत्त्वमेकं द्विधा कृतम्।
> लोके चरति कौन्तेय व्यक्तिस्थं सर्वकर्मसु।। 12-350-27a 12-350-27b.
>  Mahabharata
>
> [Rudra and Narayana are only two manifestations of One Principle.......]
>
> regards
> subbu
>
> .
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 8:49 AM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Was Bhishma ashamed of speaking of the glories and 1000 names of Shiva?
> >
> > Sri Vadiraja Tirtha (of the Madhva school), in his 'Lakshalankara', a
> > commentary on the Mahabharata, says that Bhishma, feeling ashamed of
> > narrating the glories of Shiva, turned to Krishna to do the same when
> > Yudhishthira sought to know Shiva's glories and the 1000 names.
> >
> > In this article this topic is discussed:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.mediafire.com/file/c5pi6zwlqzhbnr9/Was_Bhishma_ashamed_to_speak_of_the_glories_and_1000_names_of_Shiva.pdf/file
> >
> > regards
> > subrahmanian.v
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Archives: http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/
> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.culture.religion.advaita
>
> To unsubscribe or change your options:
> https://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/advaita-l
>
> For assistance, contact:
> listmaster at advaita-vedanta.org
>


-- 
Regards

-Venkatesh