[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Quotes from samkshepa shaareeraka

[Bhaskar YR]

These verses are best understood in drishTi-srishTi-vAda framework. I can understand the difficulty to appreciate these shlOkAs if one ascribes reality to jIva, jagat and Ishwara.

praNAms Sri Sudhanshu prabhuji
Hare Krishna

Be practical prabhuji, do you want to do sAdhana by holding the shallow theories like Ishwara and guru just your conditioned mind construction??  Don’t you want to approach shrOtreeya brahmanishTa guru??  Don’t you want to have a sadguru who can lead you in the right path of realization??  Don’t you want to do guru seva (tadviddhi praNipAtena, pariprashnena sevaya) and ask for his blessings??  Do you say to your guru :  even though you are just a mental construction of mine, I am just imagining you as the person and listen to your teachings which is again I know  is illusory etc.??  Likewise when you are doing your ishta devata archana, pooja, dhyAna do you carry the ideas like you are nothing after my realization, unfortunately I am worshipping you during my avidyA period that too binding myself to the SDM!!??  You can say hundred and one things to logically prove Ishwara and guru big zero after realization but as long as you are sincere sAdhaka Ishwara is your karmaphala dAta, guru is our kArnuNya murthy, shAstra is our ultimate source...just you cannot come out of this sAmpradAyik method of learning and realization even though you might succeed in proving all are your imagination with mere logic.  

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar