Post by kingcobra on Jul 28, 2007 13:13:21 GMT -6
Baladev Visyabhushan developed his own slant on Vedanta with his Govinda-bhASya commentary, which reconciles the advaita and dvaita schools with the concept of inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference.
I am going to rely on the English translation by Vasu and the Hindi translation by Krishnadas. I will leave it up to Nitaidas to put the finishing touches on it and correct anything garbled or lost in translation.
athAto brahmajijnAsA | 1|
Now therefore enquiry should be made into Brahman.
Baladeva's Commentary
athAtaH zabdavatrAnantaryyahetubhAvayorbhavataH
The word 'atha' means immediate sequence: 'atah' means therefore. The sense of the sUtra is that enquiry in Brahman should be made now.
Hindi: yahAM atha aura ata zabda krama me anantara tathA hetubhAva meM haiM.
The King Cobra Commentary:
The Upanishads are formatted as dialogues between teacher and student ala the Socratic tradition. The student is supposed to approach the teacher with queries about the mysteries of life and the afterlife. There is a set protocol, and according to that protocol, the correct first question to be answered is what is the nature of the Supreme Spirit. The Holy Trinity in Roman Catholicism is not the same as the Hindu trinity although there are undoubtedly some similarities, the components of which make up the sacred syllable omkara (literally the letter om or aum, which in the Devanagari script has its own symbol, even though it has two vowels and a consonant). Those components are the vowels A, U and M. Each one is symbolic of many different aspects of that trinity. The first tika or commentary on the sUtras (aphorisms or strings)was penned by Shankara, which was followed by later commentaries of Ramanuja and Madhva and others. The Vaishnava schools are of 4 distinct sects historically, and Baladev wrote his commentary to help establish the Caitanyaite school as a recognized fifth sect. OBL Kapoor discusses at length the problems with any strong connection of the Caitanyaite school with the Madhvaite school. Bhaktisiddhanta believed in a very strong connection, but it is doubtful that Bhaktivinode shared that belief. I don't know about Lalita Prasad's position on the matter, as I did not have a chance to really interview him while he was on the planet. He was too busy reading texts with Jagat while we were staying at his temple in West Bengal.
I am going to rely on the English translation by Vasu and the Hindi translation by Krishnadas. I will leave it up to Nitaidas to put the finishing touches on it and correct anything garbled or lost in translation.
athAto brahmajijnAsA | 1|
Now therefore enquiry should be made into Brahman.
Baladeva's Commentary
athAtaH zabdavatrAnantaryyahetubhAvayorbhavataH
The word 'atha' means immediate sequence: 'atah' means therefore. The sense of the sUtra is that enquiry in Brahman should be made now.
Hindi: yahAM atha aura ata zabda krama me anantara tathA hetubhAva meM haiM.
The King Cobra Commentary:
The Upanishads are formatted as dialogues between teacher and student ala the Socratic tradition. The student is supposed to approach the teacher with queries about the mysteries of life and the afterlife. There is a set protocol, and according to that protocol, the correct first question to be answered is what is the nature of the Supreme Spirit. The Holy Trinity in Roman Catholicism is not the same as the Hindu trinity although there are undoubtedly some similarities, the components of which make up the sacred syllable omkara (literally the letter om or aum, which in the Devanagari script has its own symbol, even though it has two vowels and a consonant). Those components are the vowels A, U and M. Each one is symbolic of many different aspects of that trinity. The first tika or commentary on the sUtras (aphorisms or strings)was penned by Shankara, which was followed by later commentaries of Ramanuja and Madhva and others. The Vaishnava schools are of 4 distinct sects historically, and Baladev wrote his commentary to help establish the Caitanyaite school as a recognized fifth sect. OBL Kapoor discusses at length the problems with any strong connection of the Caitanyaite school with the Madhvaite school. Bhaktisiddhanta believed in a very strong connection, but it is doubtful that Bhaktivinode shared that belief. I don't know about Lalita Prasad's position on the matter, as I did not have a chance to really interview him while he was on the planet. He was too busy reading texts with Jagat while we were staying at his temple in West Bengal.