[Advaita-l] Krishna - Arjuna non-difference in the Mahabharata

[sreenivasa murthy]

 Dear Sri Subramanian,
Upanishads proclaim  Krishna-Subramanian non-difference 
in the same vein as the Narayana-Rudra non difference and 
Krishna-Arjuna non difference.
So is the whole manifestation  non-different from Brahman / Atman. 
It is this Truth that has to be realized by every student of Upanishads.
With respectful namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy

    On Saturday, 30 November, 2019, 11:04:30 pm IST, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
 Veda Vyasa declares the Krishna-Arjuna non-difference in the same vein as
the Narayana-Rudra non-difference in the Mahabharata:

रुद्रो नारायणश्चैव सत्त्वमेकं द्विधा कृतम्।
लोके चरति कौन्तेय व्यक्तिस्थं सर्वकर्मसु।। 12-350-27a 12-350-27b. ಇದು
ಹರಿ-ಹರರ ಅಭೇದ.
[Rudra and Narayana are only two manifestations of One Principle.......]

In the Drona Parva:
https://sanskritdocuments.org/…/mahabhar…/unic/mbh07_sa.html
<https://sanskritdocuments.org/mirrors/mahabharata/unic/mbh07_sa.html?fbclid=IwAR0V-YE-qW1xKU6VpaHs8Gz68xTHy6kf3OZZNtVUGq7k_4ZfVuJYF4Ao6io>
7th.
Drona Parva:

पूर्वदेवौ महात्मानौ नरनारायणावुभौ |
एकात्मानौ द्विधाभूतौ दृश्येते मानवैर्भुवि ||४१||

This is Keshava-Arjuna identity. One entity alone appears as two for humans
in the world.

अर्जुनः केशवस्यात्मा कृष्णोऽप्यात्मा किरीटिनः |
अर्जुने विजयो नित्यं कृष्णे कीर्तिश्च शाश्वती ||

Arjuna is the Self of Krishna and the latter is the Self of Arjuna.

All this is akin to the Skandopanishat set of verses which Smartas in
Karnataka and Andhra chant thrice every day during the Sandhya vandanam:

शिवाय विष्णुरूपाय शिवरूपाय विष्णवे ।
शिवस्य हृदयं विष्णुः विष्णोश्च हृदयं शिवः ॥८॥
यथा शिवमयो विष्णुरेवं विष्णुमयः शिवः ।
यथान्तरं न पश्यामि तथा मे स्वस्तिरायुषि ॥९॥
यथान्तरं न भेदाः स्युः शिवकेशवयोस्तथा ।[Skandopaniṣat]

[(obeisance to Śiva who is of the form of Viḷṣṇu, and to Viṣṇu of the form
of Śiva. Śiva's heart (self) is Viṣṇu and Viṣṇu's self is Śiva. Just as
Viṣṇu is fully verily Śiva, so too Śiva is fully verily Viṣṇu. As I do not
see any difference between them, let me be prosperous and long-lived. Let
there be no difference between Śiva and Keśava.

In fact the Mahabharata itself contains a similar verse:

शिवाय विष्णुरूपाय विष्णवे शिवरूपिणे ।।

दक्षयज्ञविनाशाय हरिरूपाय ते नमः। 3.39.76 (हरिरुद्राय)

[These are the words of Arjuna to Lord Śiva during the Pashupata episode.]

In the Harivamśa, an extension of the Mahabharata, we have Markandeya's
words:

मार्कण्डेय उवाच॥ शिवाय विष्णुरूपाय विष्णवे शिवरूपिणे। अथान्तरं न पश्यामि
तेन ते दिशतः शिवम् ।

Om Tat Sat
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