[Advaita-l] Is Badarayana same as Vyasa?

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Hari Om Sadananda ji
You wrote -
the brahmasuutras refererred in the sloka may not be (obviously includes
may be) pertaining to pourusheya Baadaraayana suutras.
Thanks for the post.
Hari Om!Sadananda

On this Subbuji already has clarified that the word brahmasuutra in Geeta
13.4 cannot *realistically* be assumed to refer to the BS of Badarayana.
This does not  require a meemamsik position as you put  it of
veda-nityatvaM etc. Because both BS and BG are pouruSheya texts alone,
anyway.
The problem in assuming that BG refers to BS is

1. If Vyasa first composed MB/Bgeeta and then later as a nyAya Grantham to
do tAtparya niscayam etc., of various scriptures , he composed the BS, then
BG in Krishna's words cannot reference a nonexistent BS.

2. If BS had been composed prior to Gita, then BS cannot reference BG which
it indeed does in some suutras like 1.3.23 and 2.3.45 etc.

And so Sri Shankara does not parse suutra in BG as referring to be and thus
maintains consistency with how he parses the word  suutra in the Br.Up. as
Subbu ji elaborated.

Incidentally, I remember Swami Vivekananda (who in a sense was not exactly
a very orthodox Mahatma) admiring the exegetical consistency across all the
commentaries of Shankara, saying that over 1000 years have passed but no
one has been able to find any internal inconsistency or contradiction in
his commentaries.

Of course one can't convince everyone. Thats the play of maya.

Om










1.  There will be a circularity 19 Jul, 2018, 5:47 PM kuntimaddi sadananda
via Advaita-l, <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Praveenji - PraNAms
> And thanks for your post. I have no problem in accepting the fact that
> Sutras refute the arguments that are against advaita.  I raised just as an
> issue since historical perspective is and can be different from the
> meemaamsik position. Also, the statement in the Geeta - RiShibhiH
> bahudhaa geetam... the brahmasuutras refererred in the sloka may not be
> (obviously includes may be) pertaining to pourusheya Baadaraayana suutras.
> Thanks for the post.
> Hari Om!Sadananda
>
>    On Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 10:23:51 PM EDT, Praveen R. Bhat via
> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>  Namaste Sadaji,
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:35 PM kuntimaddi sadananda via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > The question that no one has addressed is - Do the Brahmasutras refute
> > Buddhistic philosophies or not? If so, what is the data of the
> Brahmasutras
> > and do we bring the Bhagavan vyaasa's period to post Buddha?
> >
>
> The academic approach would indeed be as to what the content seems to be
> refuting and thereby some dating. In sampradAya, however, we do not take
> such thinking into account, as other possibilities do exist:
> i) the creation is continuous and its repetitive across kalpAs. So one can
> have Buddhism, etc, from previous kalpa refuted!
> ii) it can be forward-referencing, considering that Vedas are not limited
> by time and so too, shAstras based on them, seen/ heard by krAntadarshi
> kavis and Rishis.
>
> How else would there be Chandogya Shruti like तद्धैक आहुरसदेवेदमग्र
> आसीदेकमेवाद्वितीयं तस्मादसतः सज्जायत ! Bhashyakara considered such as
> refutation of Vainashikas, Buddhists being just one among them. Similar is
> the understanding when historical figures appear in Vedas, such as Rama and
> Hanuman in Muktikopanishad.
> ​
> gurupAdukAbhyAm,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
> That owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
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