[Advaita-l] Shankaracharya’s ‘para-kaaya-pravesha’ in the light of a Mahabharata episode

[V Subrahmanian]

Shankaracharya’s ‘para-kaaya-pravesha’ in the light of a Mahabharata episode

In the Madhaviya Shankara Vijaya is the episode where Shankaracharya, in
the context of a debate with Ubhaya Bharati, uses the yoga siddhi of 'para
kaaya pravesha' (getting into someone else's body). This is discussed in
this article in the light of a somewhat similar episode of the
Mahabharata:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zd40ci13xbgc2ep/On_Shankaracharya_Parakayapravesha.pdf/file

warm regards
subbu