[Advaita-l] Sanskrit Speech on BG 9 - 11 by Visistadvaita Pandita

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
>
> From Advaita Sharada  -
> अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम् ।
> परं भावमजानन्तो मम भूतमहेश्वरम् ॥ ११ ॥
> भाष्यम्
>   अवजान न्ति अवज्ञां परिभवं कुर्वन्ति मां मूढाः अविवेकिनः मानुषीं
> मनुष्यसम्बन्धिनीं तनुं देहम् आश्रितम्, मनुष्यदेहेन व्यवहरन्तमित्येतत्, परं
> प्रकृष्टं भावं परमात्मतत्त्वम् आकाशकल्पम् आकाशादपि अन्तरतमम् अजानन्तो मम
> भूतमहेश्वरं सर्वभूतानां महान्तम् ईश्वरं स्वात्मानम् । ततश्च तस्य मम
> अवज्ञानभावनेन आहताः ते वराकाः ॥
>
> In this Bhashya Adi Sankara is mainly saying the people without Viveka are
> showing disrespect to God. They cannot understand He is Ishwara and the
> Atma of all. In the next Sloka he has said प्रकृतिं देहात्मवादिनीं. They
> treat Body as Atma. The Dehatmavadi people are the Fools. They cannot
> understand God because they think Body is Atma and there is no other Atma
> or Paramatma.
>
>  I think the scholar in the Video is taking the first sentence like -
> अवजानन्ति
> मूढा: मां तनुं आश्रितं मम मानुषीं तनुं च. What is तनुं आश्रितं ? He is the
> Asraya of the World and all Cit and Acit Vastus. They are His tanu, His
> Body. Madhvas are forgetting this and thinking He is separate and World is
> separate. Sankarites are also forgetting World is His body. It is not
> Maayaa.


To say that Advaitins forget that the world is His body is not correct.
The Advaita bhashya for the Vishwarupa adhyaya does not bear this.  There
are several verses in the BG and the Ishavasya upanishad where the teaching
is:  he who sees Me everywhere and everything in Me is the one with the
correct vision.  This is an endorsement of the 'world is the body of
Brahman'.  Advaitins admit of the entire creation to be the body of the
Creator Brahman on the basis of the Purusha sukta, mundakopanishat
upanishad mantra of the various parts associated with various parts of the
created world:

अग्निर्मूर्धा चक्षुषी चन्द्रसूर्यौ दिशः श्रोत्रे वाग्विवृताश्च वेदाः ।
वायुः प्राणो हृदयं विश्वमस्य पद्भ्यां पृथिवी ह्येष सर्वभूतान्तरात्मा ॥ ४ ॥
भाष्यम्
संक्षेपतः परविद्याविषयमक्षरं निर्विशेषं पुरुषं सत्यम् ‘दिव्यो ह्यमूर्तः’
(मु. उ. २-१-२)
<http://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/php/format.php?bhashya=Mundaka&page=02#MD_C02_S01_V02>
इत्यादिना मन्त्रेणोक्त्वा, पुनस्तदेव सविशेषं विस्तरेण वक्तव्यमिति प्रववृते
; संक्षेपविस्तरोक्तो हि पदार्थः सुखाधिगम्यो भवति सूत्रभाष्योक्तिवदिति । यो
हि प्रथमजात्प्राणाद्धिरण्यगर्भाज्जायतेऽण्डस्यान्तर्विराट्, स
तत्त्वान्तरितत्त्वेन लक्ष्यमाणोऽप्येतस्मादेव पुरुषाज्जायत
एतन्मयश्चेत्येतदर्थमाह, तं च विशिनष्टि — अग्निः द्युलोकः, ‘असौ वाव लोको
गौतमाग्निः’ (छा. उ. ५-४-१)
<http://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/php/format.php?bhashya=Chandogya&page=05&hval=%E2%80%98%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8C%20%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%20%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%20%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%83%E2%80%99%20%28%E0%A4%9B%E0%A4%BE.%20%E0%A4%89.%20%E0%A5%AB-%E0%A5%AA-%E0%A5%A7%29#Ch_C05_S04_V01>
इति श्रुतेः । मूर्धा यस्योत्तमाङ्गं शिरः, चक्षुषी चन्द्रश्च सूर्यश्चेति
चन्द्रसूर्यौ ; यस्येति सर्वत्रानुषङ्गः कर्तव्यः अस्येत्यस्य पदस्य
वक्ष्यमाणस्य यस्येति विपरिणामं कृत्वा । दिशः श्रोत्रे यस्य । वाक् विवृताश्च
उद्घाटिताः प्रसिद्धा वेदाः यस्य । वायुः प्राणो यस्य । हृदयम् अन्तःकरणं
विश्वं समस्तं जगत् अस्य यस्येत्येतत् । सर्वं ह्यन्तःकरणविकारमेव जगत्,
मनस्येव सुषुप्ते प्रलयदर्शनात् ; जागरितेऽपि तत
एवाग्निविस्फुलिङ्गवद्विप्रतिष्ठानात् । यस्य च पद्भ्यां जाता पृथिवी, एष देवो
विष्णुरनन्तः प्रथमशरीरी त्रैलोक्यदेहोपाधिः सर्वेषां भूतानामन्तरात्मा । स हि
सर्वभूतेषु द्रष्टा श्रोता मन्ता विज्ञाता सर्वकरणात्मा ॥

subrahmanianv.



> He is also Arca Vigraha in temples. But Fools will not show respect
> to Him because they think God cannot be in Idols. What is मानुषीं तनुं? The
> Avataras like Rama and Krishna. People like Ravana and Duryodhana did not
> show respect to Him because they thought he was a ordinary man.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Vidyasankar Sundaresan via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > >
> > > In the below video at 16:00 minutes he is saying Madhvas and Advaitis
> > both
> > > are wrong. They are not recognizing the Sarira Sariri Bhava.
> > >
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRncBdd29jc
> > >
> > > What is the correct explanation for BG 9-11?
> > >
> >
> > Dear Sri Venkatesh Murthy,
> >
> > Of course, he says that. He is a Srivaishnava scholar.
> >
> > Let me pose a counter to you. As a member of the Advaita-L list, why
> don't
> > you take up the SAnkarabhAshya on this verse and share with the rest of
> the
> > members here, what you think about it? The entire text of the gItAbhAshya
> > is available online, in case you don't have a print publication, both at
> > the Gita supersite from IIT Kanpur and at the Advaita Sharada site from
> > Sringeri.
> >
> > Wouldn't our Acharya's bhAshya be the correct explanation for BhG 9-11?
> Or
> > at least the first explanation that Advaitins should attempt to
> understand?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vidyasankar
> >
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>
> -Venkatesh
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