[Advaita-l] 'chhinnasamshayaH'

[Rajaram Venkataramani]

My guess: Lord Rama doubted His true nature as Vishnu. This doubt was
destroyed through the instruction "You are  Vishnu not a mortal
human".

On 11/12/2011, sriram <srirudra at vsnl.com> wrote:
> Pranams
> This word Chinnasamsayah-629-as per Sri Velukudi Krishnan Swamigal -is
> translated as He who rents asunder the doubts - in the minds of
> devotees -llike whether it is possible or not possible to knowHim or whether
> He is difficult to approach or easy to get.So thisway your query can be
> answered satisfactorily.Sri Velukudi follows  Parasara Bhattar`s Bhagavad
> Guna Dharpanam for the meanings of the  thousand names of Sri
> Vishnu.R.Krishnamoorthy.
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>> Namaste
>>
>> In the srIviShNusahasranAma there is the name (623) 'chhinnasamshayaH'.
>> The meaning is: The one for whom all doubts have rent asunder.  The
>> commentary by Shankaracharya is: For the One to whom everything is
>> directly
>> realized there is no doubt of any kind at all.
>>
>> The same word appears in the Bhagavadgita 18.10 where the advanced
>> aspirant
>> is described as the one whose avidya-born doubt is no longer there and he
>> is of the firm conviction that remaining established in the Self is the
>> highest means for liberation and no other means can take one to the
>> highest
>> state.
>>
>> The word 'chhinna' suggests that something has remained before and has
>> been
>> destroyed/cut subsequently.  While in the case of the aspirant it is quite
>> justified to use the word where there is avidya to occasion doubt there
>> comes a state when owing to vidya the doubt/s are destroyed.  However in
>> the case of the Lord how is this word justified where there is no prior
>> avidya to cause doubt/s and getting destroyed later?
>>
>> Regards,
>> subrahmanian.v
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