[Advaita-l] Fwd: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Re: The word 'shunyam' referring to Brahman in the Upanishad

[Belavadi Shankar]

In Brahma Sutra Bhashya of Sri Shankaracharya we come across 'Space' as
attributed to Brahman.

2018-04-09 23:18 GMT+05:30 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> Date: 2018-04-09 23:17 GMT+05:30
> Subject: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Re: The word 'shunyam' referring to Brahman
> in the Upanishad
> To: BHARATIYA VIDVAT <bvparishat at googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Namaste
>
>
> In an old post (below) I had cited a shruti passage, without knowing the
> exact reference:
>
> *स्वप्रकाशमानन्दघनं शून्यमभवत् इति श्रुतिः ।*
>
>
> Now, while searching on the google, I got this reference for the above
> shruti passage:
>
> https://sa.wikisource.org/s/ktu
>
> It is in the Nrsimha uttara tapinyupanishat:  6th khanda:
>
> // सर्वस्य पुरतः सुविभातमविभातम-द्वैतमचिन्त्यमलिङ्गं स्वप्रकाशमानन्दघनं
> शून्यमभवत् । एवंवित्स्वप्रकाशं परमेवब्रह्म भवति...//
>
> This post is merely to intimate that the source of the passage is now
> known.
>
> regards
> subrahmanian.v
>
>
> [{भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Shankara, Gaudapada, Buddhism (from Pacchannabauddha
> who knew Buddhism superficially)]
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 4:58 AM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Namaste
> >
> > The word 'shUnya' is listed as one of the names of Brahman by Sri
> > Paramashivendra Saraswati (the preceptor of Sri Sadashivendra Saraswati
> > of Nerur) in his work:
> >
> >
> > वेदान्तनामरत्नसहस्त्रम्’ [a book of a thousand names of Brahman culled
> out from the Vedanta']:
> > शून्यम् - पारतत्त्र्यादिदोषरहितं निर्विशेषं वा ।  तदुक्तं वासिष्ठे -
> >
> > शून्यं तत् प्रकृतिर्माया ब्रह्म विज्ञानमित्यपि ।
> > शिवः पुरुष ईशानो नित्यमात्मेति कथ्यते ॥ इति ।
> > *स्वप्रकाशमानन्दघनं शून्यमभवत् इति श्रुतिः ।*  उक्तं च पाद्मे पुराणे -
> > यं दृष्ट्वा योगिनो नित्यं सन्तृप्ताः स्वात्मसंस्थितम् ।
> > अक्षरं सदसच्छून्यं परमात्मानमीश्वरम्॥ इति ।
> >
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