[Advaita-l] Narayanaya in Advaita

Nithin Sridhar sridhar.nithin at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 09:22:40 CST 2014


Readers may feel the following article of mine relevant to the topic-
"A deity can either be God or god or bot"
http://nithinsridhar.blogspot.in/2013/06/a-deity-can-either-be-god-or-god-or-both.html


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Venkata sriram P <venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>wrote:

> Namaste Sri.Subbuji,
>
> ................
> Therefore 'nArAyanNa' is the Supreme AtmA and
> not the relative deity with a specific form
> ...............
>
> The same interpretations can also be given to gaNapati, sUrya,
> shiva etc.
>
> I have a advaita bhASya to gaNapati-atharvashIrsha that
> equates gaNapati with adhiSTAna tattva of jagat .  This
> beautiful bhASya gives a beautiful interpretation to several
> mantrAs like:
>
> 1) tvamEva pratyakSaM tat tvaM asi
> 2) tvamEva kEvalaM dhartAsi
> 3) tvamEva kEvalaM hartAsi
> 4) tvamEva sarvaM khalvidaM brahmAsi
> 5) tvaM sAkSAt AtmAsi nityaM
>
> The nara-bhAga is nara; the gaja-bhAga is nArAyaNa;
> the gaNapati is ubhayAtmaka.
>
> The "nara' bhAga of gaNapati is lakshyArtha of "tvam"
> the "gaja" bhAga of gaNapati is the lashyArtha of "tat".
>
> The union or the joint of "gaja mukha" and "nara-dEha"
> is "tat tvaM asi" mahAvAkya swarUpa.
>
> Further the this bhASya says:
>
> nArAyaNOpaniSadi nArAyaNa nAma artha pratipAdanE
> nArAt jAtA nArAH tA EvAyanaM yasya iti nArAyaNaH - praNavamayatvAt
> praNavOpAsaka sanyAsinAM nArAyaNa sanjnAtmakatvAt
>
>
> regs,
> sriram
>
>
>
>
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