[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: RE: Re: [advaitin] apauruSheyatva of the Veda

[Bhaskar YR]

with the eternal Self, can be reconciled only if the mantras are eternal

praNAms
Hare Krishna

One would always think what is meant by eternal here !!  if this nityatva is like brahman / satya / Atman etc. then shruti itself would have not been said 'atra veda aveada', that too in sushupti (not even in paramArtha jnAna (source vide br.up.) so is it better to think maNtrOkta jnana is eternal like brahma tattva instead of mantra Shabda in itself!!??  Anyway,  atra veda aveda shruti declaration  definitely ring a bell that veda-s are not eternal in literal sense unlike brahma / tattva / satya.   If I remember right this topic of cessation of shruti (veda) comes for discussion in sUtra bhAshya (4th chapter??  Geeta bhAshya ?? Not sure) Here bhAshyakAra is comfortable and OK with the cessation of shruti after the dawn of jnana, bhAshyakAra quotes here atra veda aveda and clarifies shruti itself endorses this termination of the validity of the shruti.   Just thinking aloud.  

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar