[Advaita-l] Adi Sankaracharya's bhashyas

[Sriram Krishnamurthy]

Hi all,
one small request to all of you here. Please take of your aged parents well.
That is the primary duty of a son / daughter. The Bhashya Parayanas can be
done if we have time after serving them.

thanks and Regards,
Sriram

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Michaelji,
>
> My query was regarding the bhashyas or commentaries only . Some people
> think that Adi Sankaracharya wrore the bhashya on Svetasvatara Upanishad
> immediately after writng the bhashya on the Vishnusahasranama and that the
> commentary on the Bhagavad Gita was written only after the bhashya on
> Svetasvatara. Yet some other people think that Adi Sankaracharya did not
> write any bashya on Svetasvatara. I think there is a similar confusion on
> the authorship of the Narasimhatapaniya upanishad also.
>
> As regards the Viveka Chudamani there seems to be no doubt that Adi
> Sankaracharya wrote the Saundarya Lahari. However it appears that the
> Anandalahari portion could have been written by another author.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
>
> --- On Sat, 6/27/09, Michael Shepherd <michael at shepherd87.fsnet.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>
> From: Michael Shepherd <michael at shepherd87.fsnet.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Adi Sankaracharya's bhashyas
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 1:53 AM
>
>
> Dear Devji,
>
> I agree. Make a respectful bow to the pandits -- but then apply the
> traditional three or four guides -- scriptures, tradition, guru or living
> Paramatman, and self-truth : if constant study joins your truth to the
> spoken truth -- that's it !
>
> This applies all the more to the bhakti verses attributed to Adi Shankara
> in
> his very different guise.. myself, I once set the verse to 'Giriga' to
> music, and now, dare I say it, it is as if I had had a share in that first
> saying of the prayer.. what more could one ask ?
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> [mailto:advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org]On Behalf Of
> Mahadevan Babu
> Sent: 27 June 2009 05:02
> To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Adi Sankaracharya's bhashyas
>
>
>
> Dear Michaelji,
> IMHO, under such conditions of limited scope to prove eitherway, I
> believe the Shradha plays its important role - being " Guru VedAntha
> VakyEshu VishvasaH ".
>
> I just follow what my Acharyals says and that Pramanam is good enough.
> I heard the same story a while ago, when a very learned scholar said
> that he didn't believe Viveka Chudamani was written by Sri Adi
> Shankara as well.
>
> When H.H.Chandrashekara Bharathi Swamigal has written the commentary
> for the above and affirms the author of Viveka Chudamani to Sri Adi
> Shankara, I don't need any more authority (Pramanam).
>
> Of course, sometimes it is very nice to transport oneself to the
> framework of the author to get the real essence (Bhava) as well.
>
> Regards
>
> Dev Babu
>
>
> On 26/06/2009, at 4:14 AM, Michael Shepherd wrote:
>
> > Sunilji,
> >
> > This is not a response from a learned scholar --  but from one who has
> > wrestled with the opinions of a multitude of scholars...:
> >
> > Two facts about Adi Shankara's writings are incontrovertible :
> >
> > 1) There is no conclusive proof that Adi Shankara wrote any of the
> > bhashya
> > attributed to him;
> >
> > 2) There is no conclusive proof that Adi Shankara did not write any
> > of the
> > bhashya attributed to him..
> >
> > Michael :)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> > [mailto:advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org]On Behalf Of Sunil
> > Bhattacharjya
> > Sent: 25 June 2009 11:16
> > To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
> > Subject: [Advaita-l] Adi Sankaracharya's bhashyas
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > To my understanding Adi Sankaracharya  wrote sixteen bhashyas, the
> > first
> > being on the Vishnu Sahasranama and the last being on the Lalita
> > Trishati.
> > The second and the thrid were on the Bhagavad gita and the
> > Sarirakasutra
> > rsepectively  and the rest of the twelve included  the eleven pada-
> > bhashyas
> > and one vakya-bhshya on the eleven Upanishads. Any comments from the
> > learned
> > scholars?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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