[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Paingala Upanishad

[Ananta Chaitanya [Sarasvati]]

Namaste Jaishankar ji,

I learnt yesterday from Sw. Shivaswaroopanandaji that you had a retreat
here and that you had left already. Else, i could have met you.

Anyway, thanks for your summary of Pingalopanishad, with an interesting
pramANa for ajnAna = kAraNasharIra = Anandamaya, as followed by sampradAya
that describes ajnAna to be yatkinchidbhavarUpa.

Kind rgds,
--Ananta Chaitanya
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 12:21 PM Jaishankar Narayanan <jai1971 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste,
>
> In the recently completed Vedanta Retreat at Rishikesh I had classes on
> the Paingala Upanishad. Some highlights of this Upanishad
>
> 1. One of the 108 Upanishads listed in the Muktikopanishad (59th) and one
> of the 22 SAmAnya Upanishads. Part of Shukla Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda.
>
> 2. It is in the form of a SamvAda between Paingala (student) and
> YAjnavalkya (Guru).
>
> 3. Covers all the Prakriyas like kArana-kArya, avasthA-traya, panchakosha
> etc. Explicitly talks about Pancheekaranam. Equates Anandmayakosha to
> svarupa-ajnAna and kArana-Shareera - स्वरूपाज्ञानमानन्दमयकोशः ।
> तत्कारणशरीरम् ॥ Mentions ajAna as avyakta-lesha thereby equating maya and
> ajnAna and mentions jIva is covered by ajAna -
> अव्यक्तलेशाज्ञानाच्छादितपारमार्थिकजीवस्य
>
> 4. Scholars say Adi Shankara refers to it in his bhasya on Brahma Sutras
> but I am not able to locate the exact quote in the Bhashya
>
> 5. Defines Shravana, Manana, NididhyAsanam and Samadhi. Mentions
> Jivanmukti and Videhamukti
>
> 6. Describes the JnAni as a Jivanmukta who continues in the body till
> prarabdha ends and talks about the lakshanas of a jnAni .Even talks about
> the absence of any aparakarma for a jnAni after the fall of the body
>
> 7. Explicitly mentions AdhyAropa-ApavAda as the method to know the
> atma-svarupa अध्यारोपापवादतः स्वरूपं निश्चयीकर्तुं शक्यते ।
>
> 8. Vidyaranya's Panchadashi Chapter 1 seems like a summary of this
> Upanishad. Vidyaranya has quoted many vakyas from this Upanishad in this
> Chapter called Tattvavivekaprakarana
>
> Those who are interested can listen to the below Playlist in
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>
> with love and prayers,
> Jaishankar
>
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