[Advaita-l] Who wrote Saundarya Lahari?

Nithin Sridhar sridhar.nithin at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 02:33:26 CDT 2015


It is a different issue what Adi Shankara suggested and what he did not.
But the fact is people have worshiped Mother in her Digambari form and they
love her as much as other 'sattvika worshipers'. Ramakrishna was not a
vamachari! In my personal view, Vama-marga itself has nothing wrong in it.
It is only the misuse that must be condemned. People are misusing even the
'sattvika' processes now a days.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Nithin Sridhar
> <sridhar.nithin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why cant a son describe the body of his mother? Why should any
> description
> > of the body be associated with sexuality? The forms of Goddess like Tara
> and
> > Kali are Digambari and hence all her Sadhaks see her as Naked only. Does
> > that mean, they cannot worship Kali as their mother?
> If a son can look at his mother naked why did Sati Anasuya make the
> Trimurtis Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh into babies before giving them
> breast milk? There may be some Sadhakas worshipping naked Goddess. But
> they are not Sattvika worshippers. Adi Sankara taught only Sattvika
> worship not the Vamachara Tantra.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l
> > <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Namaste
> >>
> >> In the TV programme Satya Darshana I heard Adi Sankara the author of
> >> Prasthana Traya Bhashya and the best of the Yatis and a Baala
> Brahmachari
> >> cannot be author of Saundarya Lahari. How can he describe every part of
> >> the
> >> female body details for 50 Slokas ? Even if you say he is describing his
> >> Mother how can a son describe body parts of his Mother? Someone may say
> >> Adi
> >> Sankara was Siva Avatara only. Siva can describe His own wife Paarvati
> and
> >> Her body because He is Her husband. But why did he say he is Dravida
> Sisu
> >> a
> >> baby of the Dravida country and drinking Her breast milk Stanya in Sloka
> >> 75? How can he act as husband in one place and son in another place?
> >>
> >> Someone must have written Saundarya Lahari and put his name as Dravida
> >> Sisu
> >> Sankaracharya.
> >>
> >> There are many Bhashyas for Saundary Lahari? What are Bhaashya Kaaras
> >> saying? Kindly clarify. Some Dvaitis are taunting me. I have to give a
> >> suitable reply.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> -Venkatesh
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