[Advaita-l] [advaitin] One Brahmaloka is for all Upasakas of Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, etc.- Mahabharata

[Aravinda Rao]

Namaskar Subrahmaniyan ji,
Very good point has been made. It is useful in our understanding of the
idea of brahma-loka (satya-loka) mentioned in the Gita (8-16).
Aravinda Rao

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 10:21 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In Advaita there is no concept of Vaikuntha, Shiva loka, etc. All Upasakas
> of all deities will attain One Brahmaloka, the Fourteenth loka, called also
> Satya loka. The upasakas reaching there will see that loka as their upasya
> devata loka.
>
> In the Narayaneeyam, the author has given expression to this in the
> following verse:
> नारायणीयम्/दशकम् ९०
> https://sa.wikisource.org/s/7nv
>
> मूर्तित्रयेश्वरसदाशिवपञ्चकं यत् प्राहुः परात्मवपुरेव सदाशिवोऽस्मिन् ।
> तत्रेश्वरस्तु स विकुण्ठपदस्त्वमेव त्रित्वं पुनर्भजसि सत्यपदे त्रिभागे ॥
> ९०२॥
>
> One can see the commentary thereof and other details in this article:
>
> http://www.mediafire.com/file/qm4ifz4kavff61i/Hari_Hara_abheda
>
> Now, we see this idea stated in the Mahabharata:
>
> It is on page 3343 of the 4000 odd page pdf on archive:
>
> Nilakantha's commentary for verses 50 and 51:
>
> https://archive.org/details/mahabharata_nk/page/n3341/mode/2up
>
> It says -
>
> https://sarit.indology.info/mahabharata-devanagari.xml?root=1.5.6.30.582&view=div
>
> सप्तैव संहारमुपप्लवानि संभाव्य संतिष्ठति जीवलोके ।
> ततोऽव्ययं स्थानमनन्तमेति देवस्य विष्णोरथ ब्रह्मणथ ।
> शेषस्य चैवाथ नरस्य चैव देवस्य विष्णोः परमस्य चैव ॥
> संहारकाले परदिग्धकाया ब्रह्माणमायान्ति सदा प्रजाहि ।
> चेष्टात्मनो देवगणाश्च सर्वे ये ब्रह्मलोके ह्यमराः स्म तेऽपि ॥
> प्रजानिसर्गे तु स शेषकाले स्थानानि स्वान्येव सरन्ति जीवाः ।
> निःशेषतस्तत्पदं वान्ति चान्ते सर्वे देवा ये सदृशा मनुष्याः ॥
>
> Nilakantha gives good details and also says that beyond even this
> Brahmaloka, is the absolute mukti, the Advaitic liberation, that is not any
> loka.
>
> Om Tat Sat
>
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