Variation from official interpretations

[Guest guest]

Dear Fellow MAdhvas:

 

This sort of thing does happen, i.e. independent renderings,

tho' not directly mentioned by the AcAryavarga itself. One such

example is " atat tvam asi " vs. " tat tvam asi " . Tho' the

official rendering for us MAdhvas is " that thou art not " (atat

tvam asi), we can still take it to mean " that thou art " ,

i.e. tat tvam asi, (not in the Advaitic sense or even the

VishiSTAdvaitic sense of " sharIra-sharIrI bhAva " ) but in our

Dvaitic sense of " bimba-pratibimba bhAva " , i.e. where we jIvas

too are in the image of the Lord as " saccidAnandasvarUpa " ,

albeit a tiny one in comparison to the Lord's infinite

saccidAnandasvarUpa. Such " concessional " and " compromising "

interpretations are not totally unfounded in our tradition.

 

Hari-VAyu smaran.a

BN Hebbar