[Advaita-l] Looking for a Smriti reference

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste.

The following mantra is from Suta Samhita, Brahma Gita, Chapter 8
(kaivalyopanishad) , verse 10

<< अरूपं सच्चिदानन्दमद्भुतं परमेश्वरम्।

उमासहायमोमर्थ प्रभुं साक्षात्रिलोचनम् ॥ >>

<< arUpaM sachchidAnandamadbhutaM parameshvaram|

umAsahAyamomartha prabhuM sAkShAtrilochanam || >>
Regards

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 4:12 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:26 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:10 PM Siva Senani Nori via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > The description विद्यासहायवान् देवो विष्वक्सेनो हरिः प्रभुः Is found in
> >> the Shanti parva. 12.347.19 (In  NilakaNTha edition)
> >>
> >
> The NilakaNTha commentary says: विद्या निर्विशेषचिन्मात्राकारा चेतोवृत्तिः
> |  This is admitted in Advaita as the Akhandakara vritti.
>
> Until we get the exact reference of the passage as cited by Shankara
> (‘विद्यासहायवानीश्वरः’ इति स्मृतिः ।) we can take this Mahabharata verse as
> what is being cited by Shankara partly 'shbadatah' and partly 'arthatah'.
> The shabda part is contained in the MB   ‘विद्यासहायवान्', the artha part
> is 'ईश्वरः' which is a rendering  the meaning of  देवो विष्वक्सेनो हरिः
> प्रभुः.
> From the Kena bhashya   अत इन्द्रस्य बोधहेतुत्वाद्विद्यैवोमा, Uma, the
> shakti of Shiva,  (as Shankara has stated here in the Vakyabhashya itself,
> Rudrapatni, and in the pada bhashya as Himavan's daughter) we understand
> that Shankara is implying that just as Lakshmi is for Narayana, Uma is for
> Shiva.
>
> We have at least two parmanas (as available on Advaita sharada) for the
> concept of चिन्मात्रा वृत्तिः :
>
> Sureshwaracharya's Taittirya Bhashya Vartika:
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> अन्वयव्यतिरेकाभ्यां जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तिसु ।
> बाह्यं निरस्य धीरूपं *चिन्मात्रात्मावभासया *।
> धियोपलक्ष्यावाक्यार्थं सर्वदाऽव्यभिचारतः ॥ ६५६ ॥
>
> Vivekachudamani:
>
> ब्रह्मात्मनोः शोधितयोरेकभावावगाहिनी । निर्विकल्पा च चिन्मात्रा वृत्तिः
> प्रज्ञेति कथ्यते । सा सर्वदा भवेद्यस्य स जीवन्मुक्त इष्यते ॥ ४२८ ॥
>
> It is also interesting that the Kaivalya shruti  उमासहायं परमेश्वरं प्रभुं
> त्रिलोचनं..  has the word 'prabhu' which is there in the Mahabharata verse
> too:   विद्यासहायवान् देवो विष्वक्सेनो हरिः प्रभुः.  We have already noted
> that the word 'sahaya' is common to both these passages.
>
> warm regards
> subbu
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> > This is interesting.  What I recalled is the Kaivalyopanishat mantra:
> > उमासहायं परमेश्वरं प्रभुं त्रिलोचनं.....which is somewhat close to the
> > context of the Kena mantra/bhashyam.
> >
> > regards
> > subbu
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Senani
> >>
> >>   On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 3:58 pm, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l<
> >> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:   In the Kenopanishad
> vaakya
> >> bhashyam 4.4, Shankara cites a Smriti:
> >>
> >> अत इन्द्रस्य बोधहेतुत्वाद्विद्यैवोमा । ‘विद्यासहायवानीश्वरः’ इति
> स्मृतिः ।
> >>
> >> Any help in tracing the source of the cited Smriti:
> ‘विद्यासहायवानीश्वरः’
> >> is welcome.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> subbu
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