[Advaita-l] Shankara Digvijaya Sara - part 6

[Divya Meedin]

Namaste

Following and benefiting from this series, sir. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Divya

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:48 PM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> saṁnyāsa grahaṇa nāma pañcama sargaḥ ||5||
>
> Canto 5: Taking Saṁnyāsa
>
> 33| iti saptamahāyane'khila śrutipāraṅgatatāṁ gato vaṭuḥ |
> parivṛtya guroḥ kulādgṛhe jananīṁ paryacaranmahāyaśāḥ ||1||
>
> 33. And so by his seventh year, the boy [i.e. Śaṅkarācārya] had already
> mastered the entire Śruti. He returned home from Gurukula already having
> achieved great fame amongst the public.(1)
>
> 34| jātu mandagamanā'sya hi mātā snātumambunidhigāṁ pratiyātā |
> ātapograkiraṇe ravibimbe sā tapaḥ kṛśatanurvilalambe ||5||
>
> 34. [Āryambā was] walking unsteadily on her way to bathe in the river
> [Pūrṇā],
> scorched by the fierce rays of the sun and staggering from the effects of
> her
> tapa.
>
> (By this time, Āryambā was very old. Along with the natural infirmities of
> old
> age, the rigourous tapa she had done along with her husband Śivaguru in
> order
> to get the boon of a son from Śiva Bhagavān had taken its toll on her
> health.
> She wanted to bathe in the holy Pūrṇā but it was some distance away and
> the
> hot sun of Kerala didn't help so she could only shamble along with great
> difficulty.  This was appalling to a dutiful son like Śaṅkarācārya.)
>
> 35| so'tha netumanavadyacaritraḥ sadmano'ntikamṛṣīśvaraputraḥ |
> astavījjaladhigāṁ kavihṛdyaiḥ vastutaḥ sphuradalaṅkatapadyaiḥ ||7||
>
> 35. Thus, he whose character is faultless, whose mind is always fixed on
> truth,
> the son of the lord of sages, [i.e. Śaṅkarācārya] addressed the river with
> poetic feeling and lively and ornate verses.(7)
>
> (And as a result of his prayers, the Pūrṇā changed course and began to
> flow in
> Kālati.)
>
> 36| prātareva samalokat lokaḥ śītavātahṛtaśīkarapūtaḥ |
> nūtanāmiva dhunīṁ pravahantīṁ mādhavasya sadanaṁ tām ||9||
>
> 36. The next morning, the people [of Kālati] were surprised to find the
> river,
> a cool breeze carried by its’ currents, running on a new course near the
> temple of Mādhava.(9)
>
> 37| bahavaḥ śrutipāradṛśvanaḥ kavayo'dhyaiṣata śaṅkarādguroḥ |
> mahataḥ sumahanti darśanānyadhigantuṁ phaṇirājakauśalīm ||31||
>
> 37. Many experts in Śruti, desiring to master the various śāstras,
> selected
> Śaṅkarācārya as their principal guru as he had the skill of Phaṇirāja [i.e.
> Ādiśeṣa.]
>
> (Ādiśeṣa took avatāra as the sage Pātañjali who cured the problems of
> Mankind
> in three areas, mānasika or mental through the Yoga Sūtras, vācika or in
> speech
> through the Vyākaraṇa Mahābhāṣya and kāyika or bodily through the Caraka
> Saṁhitā in āyurveda.  Śaṅkarācārya was like this too.)
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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