Vedic Hymns (Reply to shyam_md@.com )

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Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:39 pm (PST)

 

Sankara's philosophy we find hardly any reference to

the beauty and wonders of this world, presumably since

"jagat is mithya"."

 

Pranams

 

The term mithya is misunderstood by many to mean

false.

No one, least of all Adi Shankara, says the world is

false as in the sense of the english word false.

 

<snip>

 

 

So Adi Shankaras work of explaining vedanta to us was never meant to

take away our appreciation of the wonders in the world, but rather to

provide a prism to appreciate them in an entirely new dimension

 

Hari OM

Shyam

 

 

 

Dear Sri Shyam,

 

I did not interpret "mithya" as false in my post. I have read the Sankara

Bhashyams to most of the principal Upanishads and to the Brahma Sutra, in

his own words (original Sanskrit)

 

and I could not find any substantive references that "Adi Shankara's work

of explaining vedanta to us was never meant to take away our appreciation of

the wonders in the world,

 

but rather to provide a prism to appreciate them in an entirely new

dimension". So I am unable to appreciate your point. I'll be glad if you

could kindly provide references from

 

his work, highlighting the above point of view.

 

Regards,

 

Hari

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