[Advaita-l] The Kshetrajna - Paramatman identity in the Mahabharata

Venkata sriram P venkatasriramp at yahoo.in
Wed Oct 9 00:58:35 EDT 2019


Namaste Subbu-ji,
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 One can see the word Ishwara too in the second quote above, also in the sense of Nirguna Brahman.
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In BG vide chapter-15, 

उत्तमः पुरुषस्त्वन्यः परमात्मेत्युदाहृतः।
यो लोकत्रयमाविश्य बिभर्त्यव्यय ईश्वरः।।15.17।।

In the above shloka, ईश्वरः points towards सगुण ब्रह्मन् 

यस्मात्क्षरमतीतोऽहमक्षरादपि चोत्तमः।
अतोऽस्मि लोके वेदे च प्रथितः पुरुषोत्तमः।।15.18।।

Whereas here पुरुषोत्तमः points towards निर्गुण ब्रह्मन् aka वासुदेव तत्त्वम्

My teacher told me that advaita sampradaya considers both to be equal here. 

rgs,
sriram


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