[Advaita-l] the qualification to be an advaita guru

Rajaram Venkataramani rajaramvenk at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 05:30:10 CDT 2011


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Raghav Kumar <raghavkumar00 at gmail.com>wrote:

> The use of the word "kalpa" is in the bhAShya itself not in Shruti. The
> sambandha-bhAshya (introduction) to the first verse to prashnopanishat has
> the sentence -" vidyA....pippalAdivat-sarvajna-kalpair-AcAryair vaktavyA na
> sA yena-kenacit iti..." (this BrahmavidyA can be expounded only by acharyas
> like Pippalada  who are almost omniscient, not by anyone or everyone.) It
> is
> part of the bhAshya itself not in the original shloka. The first shloka
> does
> refer to Rishi PippalAda as "BhagavAn".
>

RV: Is there any sub-commentary on kalpa?



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