[Advaita-l] Fwd: A few Advaita tenets in the Shiva Puranam

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Sat Sep 11 07:54:06 EDT 2021


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A few Advaita tenets in the Shiva Puranam

In this chapter  https://sa.wikisource.org/s/igk     of the Shiva Purana we
see some interesting Advaitic tenets:

श्रीसुबह्मण्य उवाच ।।
अद्वैतशैववादोऽयं द्वैतन्न सहते क्वचित् ।।
द्वैतं च नश्वरं ब्रह्माद्वैतम्परमनश्वरम् ।। ३ ।।
सर्वज्ञस्सर्वकर्ता च शिवस्सर्वेश्वरोऽगुणः ।।
त्रिदेवजनको ब्रह्मा सच्चिदानन्दविग्रहः ।। ४ ।।
स एव शंकरो देवस्स्वेच्छया च स्वमायया ।।
संकुचद्रूप इव सन्पुरुषस्संबभूव ह ।।५।।
कलादि पञ्चकेनैव भोक्तृत्वेन प्रकल्पितः ।।
प्रकृतिस्थः पुमानेष भुङ्क्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान् ।। ६ ।।

Advaita, which holds Shiva to be the Supreme Brahman, does not tolerate
Dvaita. Dvaita is perishable while Brahma-Advaita is eternal. The Sarvajna,
Sarvakarta Shiva is Nirguna. Brahman, who engendered the Trimurtis, is an
embodiment of Sat Chit Ananda.

The above is a reference to the Ahtarva shikha statement that the Trimurtis
emerge from Shambhu:  ब्रह्मविष्णुरुद्रेन्द्रास्ते सम्प्रसूयन्ते

And the Shiva Purana verse which paraphrases the above by specifying the
name to Shiva: TrayaaNAm janakaH = the Progenitor of the Trimurtis.:
https://sa.wikisource.org/s/bww

त्रिनेत्रं त्रिगुणाधारं *त्रयाणां जनकं *प्रभुम् ।
स्मरन्नमः शिवायेति ललाटे तत्त्रिपुण्ड्रकम् ॥ २९॥


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