[Advaita-l] Shankara authenticates Shiva

[D Gayatri]

> Shankara's work is not confined to BSB. You are merely superimposing your
> personal views on Shankara by alleging what he has not said at all.

I am not superimposing anything. I am just quoting the bhAshyas as
they are. The implications are natural.


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>> > Shankara has implicitly mentioned it in his 'ityevamādīni.'
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>> So what? He says Vishnu is supreme at multiple places. So Vishnu is
>> not a created entity.
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> In that Br.up 1.4.11 Shankara implies that he is a created entity.


This argument, Shankara himself discredits.


The
> Supreme epithet for Vishnu is for the vyāpanaśīla Nirguna Brahman. That is
> what he says in the Kathopanishad where the attainment of NB is the context.

We will come to this shortly.