[Advaita-l] Shankara Digvijaya Sara - part 15

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

This is the last śloka in the 7th sarga which I forgot to post in the last
installment.  Owing to an emergency situation in my work which preoccupies me,
the next installment may not be till Monday or Tuesday.  Sorry about that.

94| ityūcivāṁsamimamiddhasukhaprakāśaṁ brahmopadiśya bahirantarapāstamoham |
tanvandayānidhirasau tarasā'bhramārgātśrīmaṇḍanasya nilayaṁ sa iyeṣa gantum ||120||

94. Then he [i.e. Kumārila] became silent and, radiant with joy, received the 
Brahmopadeśa and gave up the outer and inner delusion at the hands of the 
Ocean of Compassion [i.e.  Śaṅkara] who desired to immediately proceed to the 
home of Maṇḍana by the aerial route.(120)

(Brahmopadeśa is the instruction into the mahāvākyas that I mentioned in the 
commentary on śloka 54 in part 9.  The outer delusion is that the objects of 
the world-appearance are real and different from ones own self.  The inner 
delusion is that ones own self (i.e. ego) is real and different from the 
supreme self.  So the upshot of all this is that Kumārila, though he may have 
championed karma all his life, ended it as a saṁnyāsi.  Śaṅkarāchārya due to
his prowess in yoga had the siddhi of being able to fly.)



-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>