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

[D Gayatri]

//In the Prashnopaniishat bhashya Shankara has stated Rudra is the
world-annihilating entity.//

In the BSB, Shankara says that all such words like prANa etc. that occur
here,  must be taken to mean the supreme Brahman only and no body else. The
second brahmasUtra also states that it is Brahman alone that is the cause
of creation and destruction. In BSB 2.1.1, Shankara quotes a purANa which
says that Narayana alone is everything, he is the cause of origin and
dissolution of everything. Thus Brahman alone is the cause and no one else.


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.
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> 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.
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>>> 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:
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>>> 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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