Notes on Brahmasuutra I - corrections

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I received following corrections, some related to typo and some realted to

meaning, from shree Vidyashankar - For those members of the lists who do

not know Shree Vidyashankar, he is well known in the adviata community and

has a wonderful web site on Adaviata. I have learned a lot from his

postings on advaita. Please make the appropriate corrections to the text.

 

Also a note - I am not that ease with the transliteration schme, but I will

try to be consistent as much possible. Sometimes fingers do not seem to

follow as fast as the mind thinks. . I must have read the suutra

definition couple of times but the mind seems to read what it wants to read

than what was typed there. This may be another adhyaasa or error one

should investigate further. But for the time being please watch out for

these errors.

 

Hari Om!

Sadananda

 

The original notes had:

> alpaaskharamasamdhigdham saaravat vishhvatomukham|

>

 

It should be alpaaksharam....

 

.....

>The definition says sutra has to be -

>

>alpaaskaram - very concise - very brief

 

alpa + akshara = little + syllables, implying conciseness/brevity,

by virtue of using the minimum possible no. of words.

>

>Visvatomukham - having many meanings or many facets if possible.

>

 

vishvatomukha means, "facing all sides". Rather than "having

many meanings," the intention is that the sUtra should address

a given subject (vishhaya) from all possible angles/perspectives.

 

As such, this aspect is important not so much for an individual

sUtra, but with respect to the characteristics of the adhikaraNa

in which it occurs. Thus, the goal of the sUtra is to set forth

the vishhaya, to address the saMSaya (doubt) that arises from

various pUrvapakshha-s (prior stance) originating from other kinds

of thinking about the subject, by means of arguments that are

connected to one another in a logical progression (saMgati), and

finally set forth the conclusions (siddhAnta).

 

Best wishes,

Vidyasankar

 

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