[Advaita-l] References in Shankara's BSB

Sunil Bhattacharjya sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 22 13:48:45 CST 2016


Namaste,
Thanks. You have also seen that there are  a few verses in the original Bhagavad Gita, which are from the Kaivalya Upanishad.
Regards,Sunil KB 

    On Friday, January 22, 2016 2:11 AM, Sujal Upadhyay <sujal.u at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 Namaste,

Kaivalya Upanishad is 8 is quoted in Vishnu Sahasranama BhAshya 

27 शिव Siva -The one who is pure because of absence or transcending of three guNa-s (in him) is called as Shiva. 'He is Brahma, He is Shiva' (Kaivalya. Up. 1.8), in this way, by showing non-difference (अभेद) between them (all three), by praising the name of Shiva, etc, it is the praise of Hari (Vishnu)

OM

Sujal

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

Namaste,
Has not Adi Shankara  quoted anywhere from the Kaivalya Upanishad.
Regards,Sunil KB

    On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 10:56 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:


 Now the references to Upanishads which form the core of his commentary on
the Vedanta Sootras

Upanishads:

He isolated the Upanishad lore from the rest of the Vedic body and narrowed
it down to ten or twelve Upanishads. Even here, he did not include the
ritualistic portion of the Vedas. This was in contrast to the
classification followed by the later Acharyas.

Paul Deuessen the German Indologist in his work” The Systems of the
Vedanta”, diligently counted the number of references made to Upanishad
texts in Sri Shankara’s Vedanta Sutra Bashya. He found, Sri Shankara, in
his Bashya, quoted Upanishad texts as many as 2,000 times. The Upanishads
from which he quoted frequently and the number of quotes were: Chandogya
(810), Brihadaranyaka (567), Taitereya (142), Manduka (129), Katha (103),
Kaushitaki (88) and Svethavatara (53).

The other Upanishads he referred to were: Prashna (39), Aithereya (22),
Jabaala (13), Ishavasya (8) and kena (5).

Besides he quoted from “Agni Rahasya” (Shathapatha Brahmana), Narayaniyam
(Taitteriya Aranyaka) and “Pingani Rahasya Brahmana” as if to suggest they
carried as much authority as the Upanishads.
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