mahAvAkyaratnAvaliH- Translation No.42 - parA and aparA -addendum

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advaitin , " Sunder Hattangadi " <sunderh

wrote:

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> advaitin , " Ram Chandran " <ramvchandran@>

> wrote:

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> > aparâ — inferior - Opposite to parâ

 

> Gita 7:5 clearly uses the word as an antonym of parA. In many

> other places it has used parA as the ultimate (parAM shantim, parAM

> gatim, niShThA j~nAnasya yA parA, madbhaktiM labhate parAM etc., or

> Kathopanishad kAShThA sA parA gatiH).

>

 

 

Namaste,

 

An addendum : Mundaka Upanishad also offers this for parA and

aparA vidyA-

 

http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_upanishhat/mundaka.itx

 

shaunako ha vai mahaashaalo.aN^girasaM vidhivadupasannaH paprachchha |

kasminnu bhagavo viGYaate sarvamidaM viGYaataM bhavatiiti || 3||

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tasmai sa hovaacha |

dve vidye veditavye iti ha sma

yad.hbrahmavido vadanti paraa chaivaaparaa cha || 4||

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tatraaparaa R^igvedo yajurvedaH saamavedo.atharvavedaH

shikshaa kalpo vyaakaraNaM niruktaM chhando jyotishhamiti |

atha paraa yayaa tadaksharamadhigamyate || 5||

 

 

http://www.celextel.org/108upanishads/mundaka.html

 

I-i-3: Saunaka, well known as a great householder, having approached

Angiras duly, asked, `O adorable sir, (which is that thing) which

having been known, all this becomes known ?'

I-i-4: To him he said, ` " There are two kinds of knowledge to be

acquired – the higher and the lower " ; this is what, as tradition

runs, the knowers of the import of the Vedas say.'

I-i-5: Of these, the lower comprises the Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-

Veda, Atharva-Veda, the science of pronunciation etc., the code of

rituals, grammar, etymology, metre and astrology. Then there is the

higher (knowledge) by which is attained that Imperishable.

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder