[Advaita-l] Who is Ishwara? He is NARAYANA only. Beautiful and soothing Narayana Bhajan

[Kalyan]

Isn't the nirguNa nirvishesha Atman itself the biggest and only ignoramus in advaita? It beats me how such an Atman, wallowing in ignorance, can be described as param jyoti.

Regards
Kalyan


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On Sun, 5/21/17, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Who is Ishwara? He is NARAYANA only. Beautiful and soothing Narayana Bhajan
 To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 Cc: "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
 Date: Sunday, May 21, 2017, 2:10 AM
 
 On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 11:05 PM,
 Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
 advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 wrote:
 
 > Namaste
 >
 > I listen to this
 popular Narayana Bhajan without fail everyday like
 > many many people -
 >
 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnLfUf1Iefc
 >
 > In the Narayana Sukta
 Narayana is the Ultimate Ishwara. Who is He? The
 > Upanisad has said -
 >
 > sa brahma sa śivaḥ
 sa hariḥ sendraḥ so'kṣaraḥ paramaḥ
 svarāṭ.
 >
 > He is
 Brahma, Siva, Vishnu, Indra and other gods. He is the
 > Imperishable, the Absolute, the Autonomous
 Being.
 >
 
 Sayana in the bhashya to this sukta says - it
 is not any mūrtiviṣeśa, that
 is not any
 particular form, meaning that it is Nirguna Brahman. He
 gives
 the shruti 'param
 jyotirupasampadya..' which is discussed in the brahma
 sutra bhashya as the self that is realized upon
 right knowledge. This is
 nirguna Brahman in
 Advaita.  Sayana also says that this entity is the
 adhishthana for the aropita jagat. That is
 again nirguna brahman.
 
 regards
 vs
 
 >
 > --
 > Regards
 >
 > -Venkatesh
 >
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