[Advaita-l] Adi Sankaracharya's bhashyas

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Dear Michaelji,
 
My query was regarding the bhashyas or commentaries only . Some people think that Adi Sankaracharya wrore the bhashya on Svetasvatara Upanishad immediately after writng the bhashya on the Vishnusahasranama and that the commentary on the Bhagavad Gita was written only after the bhashya on Svetasvatara. Yet some other people think that Adi Sankaracharya did not write any bashya on Svetasvatara. I think there is a similar confusion on the authorship of the Narasimhatapaniya upanishad also.
 
As regards the Viveka Chudamani there seems to be no doubt that Adi Sankaracharya wrote the Saundarya Lahari. However it appears that the Anandalahari portion could have been written by another author.
 
Regards,
 
Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

--- On Sat, 6/27/09, Michael Shepherd <michael at shepherd87.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:


From: Michael Shepherd <michael at shepherd87.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Adi Sankaracharya's bhashyas
To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 1:53 AM


Dear Devji,

I agree. Make a respectful bow to the pandits -- but then apply the
traditional three or four guides -- scriptures, tradition, guru or living
Paramatman, and self-truth : if constant study joins your truth to the
spoken truth -- that's it !

This applies all the more to the bhakti verses attributed to Adi Shankara in
his very different guise.. myself, I once set the verse to 'Giriga' to
music, and now, dare I say it, it is as if I had had a share in that first
saying of the prayer.. what more could one ask ?

Michael

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Dear Michaelji,
IMHO, under such conditions of limited scope to prove eitherway, I
believe the Shradha plays its important role - being " Guru VedAntha
VakyEshu VishvasaH ".

I just follow what my Acharyals says and that Pramanam is good enough.
I heard the same story a while ago, when a very learned scholar said
that he didn't believe Viveka Chudamani was written by Sri Adi
Shankara as well.

When H.H.Chandrashekara Bharathi Swamigal has written the commentary
for the above and affirms the author of Viveka Chudamani to Sri Adi
Shankara, I don't need any more authority (Pramanam).

Of course, sometimes it is very nice to transport oneself to the
framework of the author to get the real essence (Bhava) as well.

Regards

Dev Babu


On 26/06/2009, at 4:14 AM, Michael Shepherd wrote:

> Sunilji,
>
> This is not a response from a learned scholar --  but from one who has
> wrestled with the opinions of a multitude of scholars...:
>
> Two facts about Adi Shankara's writings are incontrovertible :
>
> 1) There is no conclusive proof that Adi Shankara wrote any of the
> bhashya
> attributed to him;
>
> 2) There is no conclusive proof that Adi Shankara did not write any
> of the
> bhashya attributed to him..
>
> Michael :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> [mailto:advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org]On Behalf Of Sunil
> Bhattacharjya
> Sent: 25 June 2009 11:16
> To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Adi Sankaracharya's bhashyas
>
>
>
> Dear friends,
>
> To my understanding Adi Sankaracharya  wrote sixteen bhashyas, the
> first
> being on the Vishnu Sahasranama and the last being on the Lalita
> Trishati.
> The second and the thrid were on the Bhagavad gita and the
> Sarirakasutra
> rsepectively  and the rest of the twelve included  the eleven pada-
> bhashyas
> and one vakya-bhshya on the eleven Upanishads. Any comments from the
> learned
> scholars?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
>
>
>
>
>
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