[Advaita-l] Looking for a Smriti reference

[H S Chandramouli]

Verse number is 11, not 10.Sorry for the error

Regards

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 2:53 PM H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste.
>
> The following mantra is from Suta Samhita, Brahma Gita, Chapter 8
> (kaivalyopanishad) , verse 10
>
> << अरूपं सच्चिदानन्दमद्भुतं परमेश्वरम्।
>
> उमासहायमोमर्थ प्रभुं साक्षात्रिलोचनम् ॥ >>
>
> << arUpaM sachchidAnandamadbhutaM parameshvaram|
>
> umAsahAyamomartha prabhuM sAkShAtrilochanam || >>
> Regards
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 4:12 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:26 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:10 PM Siva Senani Nori via Advaita-l <
>> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > The description विद्यासहायवान् देवो विष्वक्सेनो हरिः प्रभुः Is found in
>> >> the Shanti parva. 12.347.19 (In  NilakaNTha edition)
>> >>
>> >
>> The NilakaNTha commentary says: विद्या निर्विशेषचिन्मात्राकारा चेतोवृत्तिः
>> |  This is admitted in Advaita as the Akhandakara vritti.
>>
>> Until we get the exact reference of the passage as cited by Shankara
>> (‘विद्यासहायवानीश्वरः’ इति स्मृतिः ।) we can take this Mahabharata verse
>> as
>> what is being cited by Shankara partly 'shbadatah' and partly 'arthatah'.
>> The shabda part is contained in the MB   ‘विद्यासहायवान्', the artha part
>> is 'ईश्वरः' which is a rendering  the meaning of  देवो विष्वक्सेनो हरिः
>> प्रभुः.
>> From the Kena bhashya   अत इन्द्रस्य बोधहेतुत्वाद्विद्यैवोमा, Uma, the
>> shakti of Shiva,  (as Shankara has stated here in the Vakyabhashya itself,
>> Rudrapatni, and in the pada bhashya as Himavan's daughter) we understand
>> that Shankara is implying that just as Lakshmi is for Narayana, Uma is for
>> Shiva.
>>
>> We have at least two parmanas (as available on Advaita sharada) for the
>> concept of चिन्मात्रा वृत्तिः :
>>
>> Sureshwaracharya's Taittirya Bhashya Vartika:
>>
>> अन्वयव्यतिरेकाभ्यां जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तिसु ।
>> बाह्यं निरस्य धीरूपं *चिन्मात्रात्मावभासया *।
>> धियोपलक्ष्यावाक्यार्थं सर्वदाऽव्यभिचारतः ॥ ६५६ ॥
>>
>> Vivekachudamani:
>>
>> ब्रह्मात्मनोः शोधितयोरेकभावावगाहिनी । निर्विकल्पा च चिन्मात्रा वृत्तिः
>> प्रज्ञेति कथ्यते । सा सर्वदा भवेद्यस्य स जीवन्मुक्त इष्यते ॥ ४२८ ॥
>>
>> It is also interesting that the Kaivalya shruti  उमासहायं परमेश्वरं प्रभुं
>> त्रिलोचनं..  has the word 'prabhu' which is there in the Mahabharata verse
>> too:   विद्यासहायवान् देवो विष्वक्सेनो हरिः प्रभुः.  We have already noted
>> that the word 'sahaya' is common to both these passages.
>>
>> warm regards
>> subbu
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>> >
>> > This is interesting.  What I recalled is the Kaivalyopanishat mantra:
>> > उमासहायं परमेश्वरं प्रभुं त्रिलोचनं.....which is somewhat close to the
>> > context of the Kena mantra/bhashyam.
>> >
>> > regards
>> > subbu
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Senani
>> >>
>> >>   On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 3:58 pm, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l<
>> >> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:   In the Kenopanishad
>> vaakya
>> >> bhashyam 4.4, Shankara cites a Smriti:
>> >>
>> >> अत इन्द्रस्य बोधहेतुत्वाद्विद्यैवोमा । ‘विद्यासहायवानीश्वरः’ इति
>> स्मृतिः ।
>> >>
>> >> Any help in tracing the source of the cited Smriti:
>> ‘विद्यासहायवानीश्वरः’
>> >> is welcome.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >> subbu
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