[Advaita-l] Paramaartha-Saara classes

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Tue, 6 May 2025, Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan via Advaita-l wrote:

> There are 2 paramArthasAra-s - one is Kashmiri shaivite and the other is
> advaitic.
>
> S S Suryananasatri’s work:
> https://archive.org/details/TheParamarthasaraOfAdiSesa_201705/mode/1up
>


On Tue, 6 May 2025, V Subrahmanian wrote:

> The Paramarthasaara is quoted in the Vasanakshaya chapter of the JMV:
> 
> एतदेवाभिप्रेत्य भगवान् शेष आह--
> 
> "तीर्थे श्वपचगृहे वा नष्टस्मृतिरपि परित्यजन् देहम् ।
> ज्ञानसमकालमुक्तः कैवल्यं याति हतशोकः ॥   81
> 
> It is on p.49 of the Sanskrit part of the text of the Adyar Library
> edition. And on p.252 of the English part of the same book.  The
> translation given therein is:
> 
> The Lord Śeṣa too says with this very idea in mind:
> 
> 'Whether in some holy place or in the house of a candala, though bereft of
> consciousness, he stands liberated in the very moment of the rise of
> Gnosis and finds Kaivalya, on giving up the body, with the cause of sorrow
> entirely removed (Paramarthasara 81) 
> 
> Another verse is cited there, in the same section vasanakshaya:  
> 
> शेषोऽपि स्वकृतार्यापञ्चाशीत्यामिदमाह --
> 
> हयमेघशतसहस्राण्यथ कुरुते ब्रह्मघातलक्षाणि ।
> परमार्थविन्न पुण्यैर्न च पापैः स्पृश्यते विमलः ॥ 77
> 
> A hundred thousand ashvamedha yagas, or a killing of a lakh brahmanas, the
> Knower is not touched by the merit or the demerit of those actions.   
> 
> The author is cited as Shesha (shortened form of Adishesha). I think only
> two verses are cited from the text.  Maybe there are more.
>


Thank you both for the information.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>