pAShaNda-dharmas, to Shankara Menon

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93 Greetings!

 

I have no idea about "Tarka-karika", but i guess i may be right. Some

Puranas (as i remember, Padma-, for example) name tantra, pashupata,

pancharatra etc as being pashanda (heretic) and veda-bahya.

Same view about yoga, tantra and alike had Dayananda Sarasvati, a

profound vedic scholar.

 

A.

 

, sankara menon <kochu1tz>

wrote:

> The problem I am having is that in africa my library is not with me

> But I remember that Shankara in his "Tarka Karika(I think) said that

Yoga, Tantra etc. are veda bahya.

>

> It is in (I think) Patanjali that we find mention of Panava as "Sa

shabda pranavaH".

> And none of the Vedas do we find reference to Pranava. (they do in

Upanishads but n in the 4 vedas. {I am not sure; I am speaking from

memory; and I am growing old Waaahhhhh}

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, "Arjuna Taradasa"

<bhagatirtha@m...> wrote:

> 93 Greetings!

>

> I have no idea about "Tarka-karika", but i guess i may be right.

Some

> Puranas (as i remember, Padma-, for example) name tantra,

pashupata,

> pancharatra etc as being pashanda (heretic) and veda-bahya.

> Same view about yoga, tantra and alike had Dayananda Sarasvati, a

> profound vedic scholar.

 

Devi Bhagavata Purana talks about tantras which are opposed to

vedas and tantras which are not. It says that dvijas should accept

only those tantras which are in conformity with veda and those

tantras which are not so are for ppl other than dvijas.

Tantras say about themselves that some are veda bahya and that some

or not.

 

Linga Purana has a chapter titled "tantrokta Shiva puja vidhi", not

to mention Kalika Purana. I read elsewhere that Kurma Purana has a

lot of tantric material. Ashtanga Yoga is dealt with in a couple of

puranic works.

 

SA.