[Advaita-l] Paramaartha-Saara classes

[V Subrahmanian]

On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Apr 2025, Jaishankar Narayanan via Advaita-l wrote:
>
> > This text is also referenced in Vidyaranya's Jeevanmukti Viveka, where it
> > is called Aaryaa-panchaasheeti (85 verses in Aarya chandas / metre).
> > Abhinava Gupta who is a great acharya of Kashmiri Shaiva Darshana adapted
> > this text, and expanded it, while retaining the original title, to form a
> > manual of the Pratyabhijna Shaiva marga. You can read this text at
> >
> https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_z_misc_major_works/paramArthasAraAdishesha.html
>
> Jaishankarji this is very interesting.  Do you know exactly where in
> Jivanmuktiviveka this is quoted?  I was not able to find it under either
> name after a quick glance.
>

Namaste

The Paramarthasaara is quoted in the Vasanakshaya chapter of the JMV:

एतदेवाभिप्रेत्य भगवान् शेष आह--

"तीर्थे श्वपचगृहे वा नष्टस्मृतिरपि परित्यजन् देहम् ।
ज्ञानसमकालमुक्तः कैवल्यं याति हतशोकः ॥   81

It is on p.49 of the Sanskrit part of the text of the Adyar Library
edition. And on p.252 of the English part of the same book.  The
translation given therein is:

The Lord Śeṣa too says with this very idea in mind:

'Whether in some holy place or in the house of a candala, though bereft of
consciousness, he stands liberated in the very moment of the rise of Gnosis
and finds Kaivalya, on giving up the body, with the cause of sorrow
entirely removed (Paramarthasara 81)

Another verse is cited there, in the same section vasanakshaya:

शेषोऽपि स्वकृतार्यापञ्चाशीत्यामिदमाह --

हयमेघशतसहस्राण्यथ कुरुते ब्रह्मघातलक्षाणि ।
परमार्थविन्न पुण्यैर्न च पापैः स्पृश्यते विमलः ॥ 77

A hundred thousand ashvamedha yagas, or a killing of a lakh brahmanas, the
Knower is not touched by the merit or the demerit of those actions.

The author is cited as Shesha (shortened form of Adishesha). I think only
two verses are cited from the text.  Maybe there are more.

regards
subbu


>
> I was also under the impression that paramarthasara is a Kashmiri Shaiva
> work not an Advaita one.  Mind you, amongst all the darshanas,
> pratyabhijna is probably closest to Advaita Vedanta.  The primary
> differences are that they believe the supreme being (Paramashiva) is a
> karta while Brahman is not and it is based on Agamas and Tantras rather
> than Vedas,
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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