[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Brahman alone is called Agni, Narayana, Indra, etc. - Kurma Purana

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms
Hare Krishna

Yes whatever is there it is brahman ONLY and nothing but brahman, Rishi vAmadeva realized this truth in his mother's womb.  brahman is not only mere agni, vayu, sUrya etc. he is even fishermen, slaves, and gamblers as well and he is having kAma, krOdha as well...It has to be noted here all these visheshaNa-s has been explained by shruti keeping transmigrating jeeva in mind though he is brahman  in  his svarUpa.  It should not be read other way round like brahman itself is kAmamaya, krOdhamaya adharma maya etc.  The bottom line is whatever you see whether it is auspicious or inauspicious there exists brahman ONLY nothing but brahman.  IN this sense does avidyA also brahman ONLY??  Na!!  after realizing the sarvAtmabhAVa / Atmaikatva jnAna the jnAni realizes that there was / is / never be an entity called avidyA/ajnAna in him or elsewhere 🙂

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

BHASKAR YR

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Some call Ishvara as fire,  others call him Narayana, some call him Indra, some call him Prana, and yet others call him Brahma. In truth, Brahma, Vishnu, Agni, Varuna, all gods and sages are glorified as transformations of a single existence - Rudra. Shiva appears before the devotee in the form in which they worship the Supreme Lord, to give them the reward accordingly.

The above is based on the Veda.

Shankara has quoted this in his commentary on the Brahma Sutras. These Vedic statements are elaborated in many Puranas.
‘इन्द्रं मित्रं वरुणमग्निमाहुः’ (ऋ. १ । १९४ । ४६) Ṛg Veda 1.164.46.<http://1.164.0.46/>:
इन्द्रं॑ मि॒त्रं वरु॑णम॒ग्निमा॑हु॒रथो॑ दि॒व्यः स सु॑प॒र्णो ग॒रुत्मा॑न् । एकं॒ सद्विप्रा॑ बहु॒धा व॑दन्त्य॒ग्निं य॒मं मा॑त॒रिश्वा॑नमाहुः ॥४६॥
‘एष ब्रह्मैष इन्द्र एष प्रजापतिरेते सर्वे देवाः’ (ऐ. उ. ३ । १ । ३)

These Vedic statements apply only in Advaita, naturally and without complicated interpretations.


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