[Advaita-l] Shiva and Krishna give the same assurance - Mahabharata

[sreenivasa murthy]

 Dear Sri Subramanian,
You write : "Thus we have both Hari and Hara making the same statement:the attainmentof Hari or Hara is what is known as moksha."
It is rather surprising that such erroneous statements are made.Both Hari and Hara are anAtma i.e.non-self.
Sri Shankara writes in his commentary to mantra 3-5-1 of 
Bruhadaranyaka Upanishad thus :           
nityatvAt  mOkShasya sAdhakasvarUpAvyatirEkAcca ||

What does it mean?Hari or Hara, are they my svarUpa?If the answer is no, they are anAtma only. 
In the light of the above UpadEsa of Sri Shankara,is your statement correct or erroneous?You decide yourself.
With respectful pranams,Sreenivasa Murthy




    On Thursday, 1 June, 2023 at 03:23:24 pm IST, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
 In the Mahabharata Anushasana Parva there is a discourse on Yoga by Shiva:

At the end he says;

https://sa.wikisource.org/s/3bh

महेश्वर उवाच।

सायुज्यानां विशिष्टं च मामकं वैष्णवं तथा।

मां प्राप्य न निवर्तन्ते विष्णु वा शुभलोचने।।

One attains me or Vishnu and never returns to samsara.

In the Mahabharata, Ashvamedha parvan, there is a dialogue between Krishna
and Yudhishthira on the ‘vaishnava dharma shāstra’:

https://sanskritdocuments.org/mirrors/mahabharata/mbhK/unic/mbhK14_sa.html



  प्रविशेत्स महातेजा मां वा शङ्करमेव वा | न स्यात्पुनर्भवो राजन्नात्र
  कार्या विचारणा ||१४-१०३-११७ (९५९६८)

The person who performs severe austerities, vrata-s, stated herein, attains
to Me (Krishna) or Shiva and never returns to samsara. There is no doubt at
all in this.

Thus we have both Hari and Hara making the same statement: the attainment
of Hari or Hara is what is known as moksha.

Om Tat Sat
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