[Advaita-l] Shankara authenticates Shiva as the son of Brahma

Ravi Kiran ravikiranm108 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 12:52:52 CDT 2016


On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Srinath Vedagarbha <svedagarbha at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Ravi Kiran via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 2:35 PM, D Gayatri via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>> Brahma gives instructions to Shiva on the supreme purusha and brahman,
>> > who is none other than Narayana.This is another instance of Vishnu
>> > being praised as the vedAntic brahman in the Mahabharata.
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>> > <listmaster at advaita-vedanta.org>
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>> Ok. If these references are helping in your sAdhana in some way, it is
>> great.
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>> If there are any implications to Advaita (Advaita jnAna), based on these
>> references, pl share.
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> While Gayatri can reply you correctly, I could only say that the
> implication (of Vishnu being Brahman) is that Brahman is not nir-viShESha
> and that goes against advaitic tenet.
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> /sv
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In the refs shared (Mbh: 12.329.14), I see the Supreme Purusha (नित्यं
निर्गुणः) called as Narayana.

But, could not find the reference to (सगुण) Lord Vishnu (deity) as Supreme
Purusha.


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