[Advaita-l] [advaitin] SSSS on the controversy between mulav7idya and abhavarupa - directly and simply explained as per SSSS

[V Subrahmanian]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hari Om Subbu ji.
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> In Padma PurANa, Uttara KhanDa, chapter 72, verse 177 (
> https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.56918/page/n181/mode/2up)
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> सर्वदेवमयो ब्रह्म गुरुर्वाग्मीश्वरीपतिः। अनन्तविद्याप्रभवो
> मूलाविद्याविनाशकः॥
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Thanks for this valuable reference.  But the above verse could either be an
interpolation of some post-Shankara advaitin or Veda Vyasa meant something
other than what the word would mean to an unwary reader 😀

I am reminded of an anecdote a renowned Advaitin scholar recounted:  He had
a co-vidyarthi, a Ramanuja follower.  One day the Advaitin handed a set of
verses to this person and asked for an elucidation. The other one gave a
very lucid Advaitic explanation to the verses.  When he was told: Actually
these are from the Vishnu Purana, then the friend quickly retorted:  Oh,
then the verses don't mean what I said; they have a different meaning.

One more from the same scholar:  If someone were to deny the patent
Advaitic meaning to the verses in the Bhagavatam, etc, I have a question
to them:  If Veda Vyasa wanted to depict Advaita, how would he do it? What
words, analogies would he employ ? (You can't say 'Veda Vyasa does not know
Advaita - even for refuting it').



warm regards
subbu

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