[Advaita-l] sarvAtma bhAva as explained by Bhagavatpada

Ravi Kiran ravikiranm108 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 10:10:51 CDT 2016


Namaste

Thanks to Aurobindji and Sadanandaji for the references ..


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:39 PM, kuntimaddi sadananda via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>
> PraNAms
>
> There is also discussion related to it - Bri. Up. 4-4-12 that says
> aatmanaanam chet vijaaneeyat aham asmeeti puuruShaH|
>
> Vidyaranya spends whole chapter -7 in Pachadashi -with close to 300 versus
> explaining this one mantra of the Upanishad. In fact this may be the
> biggest chapter of the Panchadashi.
>
> Regarding the extensive discussion on jaabala and satyakaama - Ravi
> Kiranji - is a useless exercise.The message of the Upanishads is 1. It is
> the teacher who decides that if the student is eligible for the study or
> not. 2. The teacher himself feels one is truthful to himself by the way he
> answers.to the question posed.
>
> The rest of discussion pertaining to Jabala's character is impertinent
> from our point since the Teacher felt the student is worthy student for the
> aadhyatma vidya.
>
> End of the relevance of the story part



> More important is what the teacher taught and what we can learn to end our
> samsaara.
>

Agreed!

Hari Om


>
> Hari Om!
> Sadananda
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 6/28/16, Aurobind Padiyath via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] sarvAtma bhAva as explained by Bhagavatpada
>  To: "Ravi Kiran" <ravikiranm108 at gmail.com>, "A discussion group for
> Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>  Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 3:48 AM
>
>  Namaste,
>  One place where I recently read about it is in
>  Brhadaranyaka 4.3.21 to 23.
>  Hari Om
>  Regards
>  Aurobind
>
>  On Tue 28 Jun, 2016 13:16 Ravi
>  Kiran via Advaita-l, <
>  advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>  wrote:
>
>  > Namaste
>  >
>  > In which one of Sruti
>  bhAshya, can we find a detailed  explanation on
>  > "*sarvAtma
>  >
>  bhAva*" as commented/elaborated by Sri Shankara
>  Bhagavatpada?
>  >
>  >
>  Thanks,
>  >
>
>


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