[Advaita-l] Supremacy of Siva as Brahman

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Namaste,

When Shiva's bramattvam is accepted, it does not mean Vishnu's brahmattvan is left out. For argument sake, the Shruti says "tattvamasi" and that means your brahmattvam is also accepted, and to realize that you have to have the jnana.

Regards,
skb


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On Fri, 9/2/16, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Supremacy of Siva as Brahman
 To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 Date: Friday, September 2, 2016, 8:08 AM
 
 Namaste
 
 ’अग्नीषोमीयं
 पशुमालभेत’ इत्यत्र
 ’द्विपादश्चतुश्पादश्च
 पशवः’ इति
 श्रुत्या
 द्विपाच्चतुष्पादश्च
 पशुशब्दवाच्यत्वेन
 निर्देशात्सन्देहे
 
 Sruti is saying Animal must be
 sacrificed for Agni and Soma and also
 Animals are two legged and four legged. Here
 there will be a doubt
 what is the animal
 Pashu for the sacrifice?
 
 But this doubt is cleared by another Sruti
 saying -
 
 छागस्य
 वपाया मेदसो अनुब्रूहि
 इति श्रुत्यन्तरेण
 छागपशुत्वनिर्णयवत्
 शिवस्य
 ब्रह्मत्वं
 ग्राह्यम्
 
 This Sruti has very clearly said the animal is
 a goat. Similarly the
 Sruti is saying
 Brahman in many places but we get a doubt who is
 Brahman? Vishnu or Siva? But in Svetashvatara
 Upanishad the Sruti has
 very clearly given
 explanation of Siva as Brahman. Examples
 -   यो
 देवानां
 प्रभवश्चोद्भवश्च
 विश्वाधिपो रुद्रो
 महर्षिः ।
 हिरण्यगर्भं
 जनयामास पूर्वं स
 नो बुद्ध्या शुभया
 संयुनक्तु || and एको हि
 रुद्रो न
 द्वितीयाय
 तस्थुः
 
 Therefore the conclusion is Siva is Para
 Brahman.
 
 On Wed, Aug 31,
 2016 at 8:31 PM, Venkatesh Murthy <vmurthy36 at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 > Namaste
 >
 > Yo vedadau svara proktah vedante ca
 pratisthitaha
 >
 >
 tasya prakriti linasya yah parahssa mahesvaraha
 >
 > The which is
 described as the primal sound (om) in the beginning ofthe
 > vedas, has been fully established as the
 supreme truth at the end of
 > the Vedas,
 the Upanishads . The one who realizes that Supreme
 > Principle is beyond the pale of those
 totally immersed in physical
 > realities.
 Indeed, He is none other than the supreme Lord
 Maheshwara.
 >
 > --
 > Regards
 >
 > -Venkatesh
 
 
 
 -- 
 Regards
 
 -Venkatesh
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