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[V Subrahmanian]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:58 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Chandramouliji
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> Swami Sarvapriyananda ji is an excellent teacher.
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> The following is not to nitpick but only to see the origin of the idea.
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> Is the characterization of the mahavAkyas as lakshana (praGYAnam brahma),
> anusandhaana (aham brahmaani), upadesha (tattvamasi) and anubhava (ayam
> aatmaa Brahma) mentioned somewhere in the traditional granthas? I have
> heard these words before and the use of these Sanskrit words seems to
> indicate prior precedent.
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> It would appear that the anusandhaana and anubhava vAkyas appear as if they
> have been switched?
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> Swami Dayananda Saraswati Ji was of the view that all mahavAkya-s are
> equivalent since the student of any single veda should still have access to
> pUrNa GYAnam.
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>  Once he (rhetorically?) suggested that any jiveshvaraikya bodhaka vAkya
> would qualify to be called a mahAvAkya. Even the idea expressed in tasmAdvA
> etasmAdAtmana Akashah saMbhUtaH is sufficient since it has the tat and etat
> pada-s in samAnAdhikaraNyam.
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That is nice. Even the 'sa yaschaayam purushe, yashchaasaavaaditye, sa
ekah.' is also a mahavakya.  There are many more.

regards
subbu

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