ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : Mantram : 14.

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ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :

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VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD



Mantram-14.



Discussion-4. "Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya's  views" ....


Swami  Sri  Adi  Sankaracharya  takes  'Vinasa'  to  refer  "Karya  Brahmam"  which  was  described
in  the  earlier  mantram-s  as  'Sambhuti  and  Sambhava.'


But  in  this  mantram,  the  Rishi  says : that  'Sambhuti  and  'Vinasa'  are  one  and  the  same.

The  terms  'Sambhuti' in  the  first  half  and  'Sambhutya'  in  the  second  half  must  somehow  be  made  to  mean  prakrti  ( nature)  ....but  already  'Sambhuti  and  Asambhuti'  were  explained  as  "Prakrti."


How  can  this  be  accomplished?



Swami  Sri  Adi  Sankaracharya  achives  this  by  taking b recourse  to  the  grammatical  licence  permissible  to  the  declarations  in  and  the  style  of  Vedas.


Says  Swamiji : "Read  the  letter  'A'  before  each  of  the  words,  "Sambhuti  and  Vinasa,"   and  take  the  letter  'A' denoting  negation,  as  having  been  found  dropped  in  the  original  ....
as  permitted  by  the  Vedic-grammar  ( 'Chandasam').

Next : Discussion-5. " This  is  again  an  instance  where  philosophers  enter  into  unproductive  arguments"  ......  

To be continued   ....
       

know the self, know the self in Nature, know the self in Jiva, Further Oneness.

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