[Advaita-l] Shankara authenticates Shiva as the son of Brahma

[D Gayatri]

//If your interest lay with Shankara's Advaita philosophy, why take up the
issue of Narayana? It would be best to confine with the Advaita tattva
which is divorced from any deity.//

I guess I will leave it here, since you are getting personal. I guess it is
my choice to decide what issue to take up as long as I confine myself to
the bhAshyas of bhagavatpAda and the works of Krishna-Dvaipayana.


On Saturday, 13 August 2016, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 3:50 PM, D Gayatri <dgayatrinov10 at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dgayatrinov10 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>> I have already read that poorly written article. In his BSB, Shankara
>> confirms that Narayana is the supreme Atman. Hence, that article need not
>> be taken seriously by me because the article contradicts the views of
>> Jagadguru Shankara bhagavatpAda, and my interest lies with Shankara's
>> philosophy.
>
>
> Yes, it has been made clear many times before too that this article does
> not interest you.  The Narayana that Shankara is confirming as the Supreme
> Atman is the nirguna brahman, beyond avyakta. Just because you do not take
> the article seriously, the facts stated therein do not go away. It no way
> contradicts the views of Shankara. In the Prashnopaniishat bhashya Shankara
> has stated Rudra is the world-annihilating entity. If your interest lay
> with Shankara's Advaita philosophy, why take up the issue of Narayana? It
> would be best to confine with the Advaita tattva which is divorced from any
> deity.
>
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>> On Saturday, 13 August 2016, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','v.subrahmanian at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 3:21 PM, D Gayatri <dgayatrinov10 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>>  It is also incorrect to say that Shankara is not bothered about Shiva
>>>> being the son of brahma, since in the brihadaranyaka upanishad bhAshya,
>>>> 1.4.11, Shankara says that Rudra-Pashupathi is also a created entity. Thus,
>>>> for Shankara bhagavatpAda, Shiva is a created entity.
>>>
>>>
>>> This portion of the upanishad is about the creation of many 'pati-s' and
>>> Shankara clearly says: ityādi, even when the upanishad does not say so.
>>> Shankara says that it is well known.  Vishnu is listed, along with other
>>> deities, as the pati of mountains in the Krishna yajur veda samhita. The
>>> details are available here:
>>>
>>> https://adbhutam.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/evidence-in-the-br
>>> -upanishad-for-vi%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%87u-being-created/
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