[Advaita-l] Mantra from Kathopanishad

[sreenivasa murthy]

 Dear Sri Shrinivasa Gadakari,
In this post I have given the English translation of Sri Shankara's Commentary to verse50, chapter 18 of Bhagavdgita.

Commentary of Srishankara  to  shloka 50  of 18th chapter- Bhagavadgita.It readsthus :
avidyAkalpitanAmarUpaviSEShAkArApahRutabuddhInAm 
atyantaprasiddhaM  suvijnEyam   asannataram,  AtmaBUtamapi, aprasiddhaM  durvijnEyam  atidUram, anyadiva  ca  
pratiBAti   avivEkinAm |bAhyAkAranivRuttabuddhInAM  tu  
labdhagurvAtmaprasAdAnAm  nAtaH  paraM  suKaM  
 suprasiddhaM   suvijnEyam   svAsannataram  asti ||

                     

 TRANSLATION of the above passage

 

Therefore  we  have  only  to  eliminate what  is  falsely ascribed

 to  Brahman by  avidya;  we  have to  make  no more  effort  to acquire  a  knowledge of  Brahman  as  He  is  quite self·evident. 
 Though thus  quite self-evident. easily  knowable,  quite  near,  and forming the  very  Self, Brahman  appears to  the  unenlightened,  to  those  whose reason  (Buddhi)  is carried  away  by  the  differentiated  phenomena  of  names  and  forms created  by  avidya  as unknown,  difficult  to  know,  very  remote, as  though  He  were  a  septrate  thing.  But  to  those  whose reason (Buddhi) has  turned  away from  external  phenomena, who  have  secured  the  grace of the Guru  and  attained  the  serenity  of the  self(manas),.  there  is  nothing  else  so  
blissful, so well-known, so easily knowable,and quite so near as Brahman.[Translated by Sri MahadevaSastri]
Ishavasya Upanishad declares :taddUrE  tadvantikE ||

With respectful namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy

    On Friday, 24 July, 2020, 9:47:01 am GMT+1, sreenivasa murthy via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
  Dear Sri Shriniva Gadakari,
You  write :"When likes of Vishnu and Shiva are engaged in sAdhanA that spans yuga-s to understand
and perfect atma jnAna".Is  it  a  fact?  How  do you  know  it?
 

Please permit me to draw your kind attention to the 
following commentary of Sr i shankara  to  shloka 50  of 18th chapter- Bhagavadgita.It reads thus :
avidyAkalpitanAmarUpaviSEShAkArApahRutabuddhInAm 
atyantaprasiddhaM  suvijnEyam   asannataram,   AtmaBUtamapi, aprasiddhaM  durvijnEyam  atidUram,  anyadiva  ca  
pratiBAti   avivEkinAm |bAhyAkAranivRuttabuddhInAM   tu  
labdhagurvAtmaprasAdAnAm  nAtaH  paraM  suKaM  
 suprasiddhaM   suvijnEyam   svAsannataram   asti ||
I followed only the pointers pointed by Sruti and 
as  explained by Sri Shankara  only  to cognize one'strue nature and what  I have found within myself 
 I have stated  in  my  posting.
You can draw  your own right conclusionsin the light of the  above teaching  of  Sri  Shankara.

With respectful namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy

    On Wednesday, 22 July, 2020, 5:52:33 am GMT+1, Shrinivas Gadkari via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
 Namaste,

When likes of Vishnu and Shiva are engaged in sAdhanA that spans yuga-s to understand
and perfect atma jnAna - may be, things are slightly more complex than what is written below.

Regards,
Shrinivas

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Dear friends,Mantra 1-2-12  of  Kathopanishad   teaches 
 the  methodology  for  cognizing  one's  true 
 nature  within  oneself  by  oneself.It  states :adhyAtmayOgAdhigamEna  dEvaM    matvA  dhIrO  harShaSOkau  jahAti || 

What  is  adhyAtmayOga?Sri  Shakara  in his  commentary  to  
the  above  mantra  writes:cEtasa   Atmani   samAdhAnam   adhyAtmayOgaH ||
That  is  all  a  student  of  Vedanta  who 
 wants  to  be  an  Atmavit  has  to  do.Nothing  more,  nothing  less.

This  is  the  same  as  AtmasaMsthaM  manaH  kRutvA 
 as  taught  in  Bhagavadgita.
With  respectful  namaskars,Sreenivasa  Murthy
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