[Advaita-l] Functions of the mind

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Jaldharji,

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 1:36 PM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> The Mohamudgara or Bhaja Govindam stotra has the refrain na hi na hi
> rakshati dukrnkarane.  "You will not be protected by dukrnkarane."  This
> is from Panini's dhatupatha so some foolish people think it means you
> don't need to study vyakarana or other shastras or even that such study
> will take you backwards on the Vedantic path.  Such people are not
> "spiritual" merely illiterate.  On the contrary Shankaracharya says that
> vyakarana is "vedanam veda" the Veda of the Vedas because it is only
> through proper analysis of speech we can get control over it and transcend
> it.
>

Further, an argument can be made here that Bhagavatpadacharya chose that
very particular dhAtu DukR~n karaNe, to show that karaNa = karma won't lead
to mukti (directly).

gurupAdukAbhyAm,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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