[Advaita-l] Fwd: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} couple of questions regarding "bramha satyam jagan-mithya"

H S Chandramouli hschandramouli at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 04:35:19 EST 2020


Namaste.

There appear to be many more errors as well, in translation apparently.

For example

<<  In fact, all darśanas (views) agree that jagat is sad-asad-vilakṣaṇam,
nitya-vilakṣaṇam, asad-vilakṣaṇam. >>

Surely not correct.

Regards

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:59 PM H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste.
>
> Reg  << // Therefore, the jagat becomes ajñāna-vilakṣaṇam, that which is
> produced
> through bhāva-rūpa-ajñāna.//
>
> I request members to comment/clarify/verify the above sentence, especially
> the first part there.  Is it 'ajnana vilakshanam' or anything else? >>,
>
> Should perhaps read  **ajnana pariNAma**.
>
> Regards
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:15 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Krishna Kashyap <kkashyap2011 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 8:40 AM
>> Subject: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} couple of questions regarding "bramha
>> satyam
>> jagan-mithya"
>> To: <bvparishat at googlegroups.com>
>>
>>
>> In my bhagavad-gita class, these 2 questions have popped up.
>>
>> 1) The verse brahma-satyam-jagan mithya jivO it seems occurs in only this
>> work of Sri Shankaracharya:
>>
>> https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_z_misc_shankara/brahmajna.html?lang=sa
>>
>> *The 20th verse of Brahmajnanavalimala
>> <http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_z_misc_shankara/brahmajna.html?lang=sa
>> >:*
>>
>> ब्रह्म सत्यं जगन्मिथ्या जीवो ब्रह्मैव नापरः ।
>> अनेन वेद्यं सच्छास्त्रमिति वेदान्तडिण्डिमः ॥ २०॥
>>
>>
>> Is this the work of Sri Adi-Shankaracharya?
>>
>> Or a later Shankaracharya?
>>
>> Does this verse repeat again in any other major work of Sri
>> Shankaracharya.
>>
>> I felt ashamed that after decades of study, I had not heard of
>> Bhramhajnanavalimala !!!
>>
>> I looked into the list of works of Sri Shankaracharya on google.
>> Out of so many results, I got, I could find this grantha listed only in
>> this site:
>>
>> https://www.advaita-vedanta.org//texts/Complete_Works_of_Adishankara.html
>>
>> 2.13   bhramA nanjana vali
>> mAlA
>> [21]
>>
>> Is this work generally acceptable as written by Sri Adishankaracharya? It
>> should be, since advaita-vedanta.org is a standard advaita website. am I
>> right?
>>
>>
>> 2) I googled further and found out the explanation given by Sri Mani
>> Dravid
>> Shastrigal on that subject. Is this explanation pretty much the standard
>> view of Advaita?
>>
>> Where can I find sanskrit descriptions of "bramha satyam jaganmitthya"
>> written by later Shankaracharya lineage acharyas, which can be quoted
>> universally like prakasatma, or bhamati-kara, or anandagiri or madusudhana
>> sarasvathi etc?
>>
>>
>> https://www.arshavidya.in/Newsletter/April18/Brahma-satyam%20Jagan-mithya.pdf
>>
>>
>> While thanking Sri Krishna Kashyap for the above URL, which is no doubt
>> very informative, yet I have a question on a particular sentence there:
>>
>>
>> // Therefore, the jagat becomes ajñāna-vilakṣaṇam, that which is produced
>> through bhāva-rūpa-ajñāna.//
>>
>> I request members to comment/clarify/verify the above sentence, especially
>> the first part there.  Is it 'ajnana vilakshanam' or anything else?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> subbu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Best Regards,*
>>
>> *Krishna Kashyap*
>>
>>
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