tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8685390517890816599.post7693145258819605887..comments2024-03-26T13:00:38.287+05:30Comments on Narayanastra – Defending Vaishnavism as the supreme Vedic position: Prelude to Ishvara Gita - Part II: A Summary of Atharvashira UpanishadHumble Bhagavata Bandhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01932475050150832871noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8685390517890816599.post-9175161790973323162018-01-09T17:19:59.372+05:302018-01-09T17:19:59.372+05:30Nice Article
Myself Karthik brought up in a Brahmi...Nice Article<br />Myself Karthik brought up in a Brahmin family which extolls shaivism<br />But am a vaishnava by choice.I have read the Bhagavata Purana and Shiva Purana to some extent<br />I have felt that Bhagavata Purana makes more sense while explaining the Narayana Paratattva. The Shiva Purana (which is a tamasik purana) resorts to tamasik ways in explaining Shiva Paratattva,like how Shiva beats Narasimha in war and so on.This is a tamasik way of explaining a Paratattva concept.In Bhagavatha Purana it says everything originated from Vasudeva and everything shall finally merge with Vasudeva. This is a sattvik way of explaining Paratattvam<br />That's why our purvacharyas never resorted to tamasik Purana while explaining parabrahman <br />Vaishnaviam is pure sattvik tattvam and only vaishnaviam is the path that can take the Jivatma to the abode of Sriman Narayana Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15249157384237365518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8685390517890816599.post-36569289542983712282018-01-04T08:45:28.414+05:302018-01-04T08:45:28.414+05:30In this context, we would lile to point out that t...In this context, we would lile to point out that the infamous "Shiva Gita" of Padma Purana has a chapter which attempts to explain away the atharvasiras as a praise of shiva. It is proof that this section is interpolated, since its' character differs from even regular sections of tAmasa purANAs. Not to mention that the philosophy contained in it also is a mess, merely a hodge-podge of several genuine statements + some invented ones. Take the following example:<br /><br />//I (grasp) without hands and (walk without) feet; I am that inestimable power; I see without eyes; I hear without ears. I am every manifest form and there is no one who knows Me. I am ever the consciousness. ||54||<br /><br />I am alone the One who revealed by all the Vedas. I am the author of Vedanta, and I am alone the knower of the Vedas.//<br /><br />This is taken from the Kaivalya Upanishad and directly incorporated into the Shiva Gita, as spoken by Shiva apparently. The interpolator did not realize that these mantras in the Kaivalyopanishad actually describe the Jivatma and not Paramatma, and thus used them as part of a discourse apparently given by Shiva to call himself the supreme! These are characteristics of the Jivatma only, which we will see later. <br /><br />The last few chapters of the patala khanda of padma purANa are interpolations. Ignorant interpolators make a lot of such mistakes which give them away. You can see similar basic errors in the interpolated sections of drona and anushAsana parvas in the mahAbhAratA as well. They are a disgrace to the sacred name of Shri Veda Vyasa.<br /><br />Aaryamaanoreply@blogger.com