[Advaita-l] Sri Shankara Declares

[sreenivasa murthy]

Dear friends,Sri Shankara Writes :
Sri Shankara’s Teachings 

(1) ParamEva brahmaavikRutam upAdhisaMparkAt 
jIvaBAvEna avatiShThatE || [Brahmasutra: 2-3-18]

परमेव ब्रह्म अविकृतमुपाधिसम्पर्काज्जीवभावेनावतिष्ठते

Supreme Brahman,that remains in the form of individual soul owing to the contact with thelimiting adjuncts. [Panoli, p. 700]

 

(2) jnaHnityacaitanyaH ayamAtmA || [Brahmasutra: 2-3-18]

 

ज्ञः नित्यचैतन्योऽयमात्मा

We say, thissoul is eternally intelligent. [Panoli, p. 700]


(3)nAtmA jIvaH utpadyateE | kasmAt | aSrutEH || [Brahmasutra: 2-3-17]

 

नात्मा जीव उत्पद्यत इति| कस्मात् ? अश्रुतेः;

Theindividual soul called Jiva has no origination.  Why? Because there is nomention of it in the sruti-text. [Panoli, p. 696]

 

(4) tathAajatvam, avikAritvam, avikRutasyaiva brahmaNaH

jIvAtmanAavasthAnaM brahmAtmanA ca iti || [Brahmasutra: 2-3-17]

तथा अजत्वम् अविकारित्वम् अविकृतस्यैव ब्रह्मणो जीवात्मनावस्थानं ब्रह्मात्मना चेति

…so also isunderstood its birthlessness and changelessness as well as the state ofunmodified Brahman becoming the individual soul which finds itself one withBrahman. [Panoli, p. 696]

(5) स्वयं प्रसिद्धं ह्येतच्छारीरस्य ब्रह्मात्मत्वमुपदिश्यते, न यत्नान्तरप्रसाध्यम्[BSB 2.1.14] 

The identityof the jiva and Brahman now taught is a self-established truth and it isnot to be got accomplished through any other effort. [Panoli, p. 490]

 

BSB 2.1.6: SrautaTarka:

(6)स्वप्नान्तबुद्धान्तयोरुभयोरितरेतरव्यभिचारादात्मनोऽनन्वागतत्वम्, सम्प्रसादे च प्रपञ्चपरित्यागेन सदात्मना सम्पत्तेर्निष्प्रपञ्चसदात्मत्वम्, प्रपञ्चस्य ब्रह्मप्रभवत्वात्कार्यकारणानन्यत्वन्यायेन ब्रह्माव्यतिरेकः — इत्येवंजातीयकः ; 

svapnāntabuddhāntayorubhayoritaretaravyabhicārādātmano'nanvāgatatvam,samprasāde ca prapañcaparityāgena sadātmanā sampatterniṣprapañcasadātmatvam, prapañcasyabrahmaprabhavatvātkāryakāraṇānanyatvanyāyena brahmāvyatirekaḥ — ityevaṁjātīyakaḥ

1.    The sleep and waking state are both exclusive ofeach other. Hence the experiencing soul is not connected with the attributes ofthese two states.

2.    But in the state of deep sleep, the soul is freefrom all worldly attachments and therefore of the nature of theSelf that is Existence. Thus, it must be the self that is supreme.

3.    Since the creation has originated from Brahman,and since the law is that the effect is not different from the cause,creation must be non-different from Brahman. [BSB 2.1.6]
[trans., V. Panoli, pp. 468-469; and Swami Gambhirananda, p. 314]

The above teachings of Sri Acarya Shankara had a very profound effect during the journey from "nAnu" (me) to "tAnu" (Self)

I am sharing these teachings with like minded persons.

With respectful namaskars,

Sreenivasa Murthy