[Advaita-l] One Brahmaloka is for all Upasakas of Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, etc.- Mahabharata

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 12:51:13 EDT 2022


In Advaita there is no concept of Vaikuntha, Shiva loka, etc. All Upasakas
of all deities will attain One Brahmaloka, the Fourteenth loka, called also
Satya loka. The upasakas reaching there will see that loka as their upasya
devata loka.

In the Narayaneeyam, the author has given expression to this in the
following verse:
नारायणीयम्/दशकम् ९०
https://sa.wikisource.org/s/7nv

मूर्तित्रयेश्वरसदाशिवपञ्चकं यत् प्राहुः परात्मवपुरेव सदाशिवोऽस्मिन् ।
तत्रेश्वरस्तु स विकुण्ठपदस्त्वमेव त्रित्वं पुनर्भजसि सत्यपदे त्रिभागे ॥ ९०२॥


One can see the commentary thereof and other details in this article:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/qm4ifz4kavff61i/Hari_Hara_abheda

Now, we see this idea stated in the Mahabharata:

It is on page 3343 of the 4000 odd page pdf on archive:

Nilakantha's commentary for verses 50 and 51:

https://archive.org/details/mahabharata_nk/page/n3341/mode/2up

It says -
https://sarit.indology.info/mahabharata-devanagari.xml?root=1.5.6.30.582&view=div

सप्तैव संहारमुपप्लवानि संभाव्य संतिष्ठति जीवलोके ।
ततोऽव्ययं स्थानमनन्तमेति देवस्य विष्णोरथ ब्रह्मणथ ।
शेषस्य चैवाथ नरस्य चैव देवस्य विष्णोः परमस्य चैव ॥
संहारकाले परदिग्धकाया ब्रह्माणमायान्ति सदा प्रजाहि ।
चेष्टात्मनो देवगणाश्च सर्वे ये ब्रह्मलोके ह्यमराः स्म तेऽपि ॥
प्रजानिसर्गे तु स शेषकाले स्थानानि स्वान्येव सरन्ति जीवाः ।
निःशेषतस्तत्पदं वान्ति चान्ते सर्वे देवा ये सदृशा मनुष्याः ॥

Nilakantha gives good details and also says that beyond even this
Brahmaloka, is the absolute mukti, the Advaitic liberation, that is not any
loka.

Om Tat Sat


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