[Advaita-l] Bhagavatam - Advaita-friendly verses

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Very nice excerpt sir.
The bagavatham surely has advaita as it's core meaning while stressing the
most essential component to achieve that jnana, i.e bakthi.

On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, 15:08 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> The context is: Vasudeva, the father of Krishna, expounding the Tattva of
> Bhagavan, upon the birth of the Child, and Bhagavan approving it.
>
> https://sa.wikisource.org/s/j55
>
> नश्वरेष्विह भावेषु तदसि त्वमनश्वरम्
> यथा द्रव्यविकारेषु द्रव्यमात्रं निरूपितम् १२
> सत्त्वम्रजस्तम इति गुणास्तद्वृत्तयश्च याः
> त्वय्यद्धा ब्रह्मणि परे कल्पिता योगमायया १३
> तस्मान्न सन्त्यमी भावा यर्हि त्वयि विकल्पिताः
> त्वं चामीषु विकारेषु ह्यन्यदाव्यावहारिकः १४
>
> The above verses mean: The immutable exists in and through the mutable. The
> essence, the material cause, alone is the real in all the effects. The
> three guna-s, sattva, etc. and their effects are superimposed by Yoga maya
> in Brahman the Supreme. Hence these effects do not exist in Brahman which
> is avyavahaaryam.
>
> This last verse above is an allusion to the Mandukya 7th mantra:
> नान्तःप्रज्ञं.....अव्यवहार्यं....The above verse uses another form of this
> term: avyavahArikaH, that which is not vyAvahArika.  Thereby the Bhagavatam
> implies that the entire world of effects, being a projection of Maya of
> three guna-s, is vyAvahArika and thereby not real, as stated in this very
> verse: तस्मान्न सन्त्यमी भावा यर्हि त्वयि विकल्पिताः.
>
> श्रीभगवानुवाच
> आत्मा ह्येकः स्वयंज्योतिर्नित्योऽन्यो निर्गुणो गुणैः
> आत्मसृष्टैस्तत्कृतेषु भूतेषु बहुधेयते २४
> खं वायुर्ज्योतिरापो भूस्तत्कृतेषु यथाशयम्
> आविस्तिरोऽल्पभूर्येको नानात्वं यात्यसावपि २५
>
> Atman is One, self-luminous and eternal, niguNa, different from the guNa-s.
> Yet, it is seen as many in the effects which are its own, through the
> agency of Maya (as seen in the earlier set of verses). Just as one element,
> for example, the prithvi, alone is seen in all its effects, so too the
> Atman/Brahman.
>
> Thus in the above sets of verses, the central doctrinal aspects of Vedanta
> are very well brought out: The Paramarthika - Vyavaharika, the unreality of
> Maya and its effects (the world) and the sole reality of the Nirguna
> Brahman.
>
> Om Tat Sat
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