[Advaita-l] A quest led to a discovery

[Divya Meedin]

Namaste

Enlightening, indeed, sir. Thanks for having shared.

Regards,
Divya

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 5:51 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> The following verse of the Garuda puranam https://sa.wikisource.org/s/8cv
> is a part of a discourse on Vedanta Sadhana.  The second half means:
> 'Brahma aham asmi aham brahma jnanam ajnana-vardhanam' = Aham brahma
> knowledge/realization 'increases' ignorance.
>
> उकारश्च अकारश्च मकारोयमृगद्वयः ।
> ब्रह्माहमस्म्यहं ब्रह्मज्ञानमज्ञानवर्धनम् ॥ १,२३९.२४ ॥
>
> Seeing this translation in an edition: 'The expressions Brahma aham asmi,
> aham brahma serve merely to create confusion' - I felt something is amiss
> here since the teaching preceding the verse is full of aham brahma asmi
> sadhana.
>
> अहंब्रह्मास्मि वाक्योत्थज्ञानान्मोक्षो भवेन्नणाम् ॥ १,२३९.१ ॥
>
> वाक्यज्ञानं भवेज्ज्ञानादहंब्रह्मपदार्थयोः ।
>
> Upon making a search in the dictionary for the word 'vardh', I got to know
> that this also means ''cutting/dividing'  apart from the common 'to
> increase...'
>
> https://kosha.sanskrit.today/word/sa/vardha
>
> वर्धः [vardhḥ], १ Cutting, dividing.
>
> Increasing, causing increase or prosperity.
>
> Thus, the vardhanam in the verse means 'naashanam.'
>
> The pdf of the Garudapurana Advaita sadhana of some four pages, with
> translation and correction, is uploaded here:
>
> <goog_500133267>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1swJXRSwwblGMM53CQNdUwuqqCn-CEb-Y
>
> regards
> subbu
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