Guest guest Posted October 13, 1999 Report Share Posted October 13, 1999 Verse No.5 dehaM prANamapIndriyANyapi calAm buddhiM ca SUnyaM viduH strI-bAlAndha-jaDopamAs-tvahamiti bhrAntA bhRSaM vAdinaH / mAyA-Sakti-vilAsa-kalpita-mahA-vyAmoha-samhAriNe tasmai SrI-guru-mUrtaye nama idaM SrI-dakshiNA-mUrtaye // Translation: Those who think of the body, breath, the senses, the changing intellect, or the void as the 'I', are just like deluded women, children, the blind and the stupid who only talk much. To Him who destroys the great delusion caused by the expression of the power of mAyA, to Him of the form of the Guru, (who has no confusion) the blessed dakshinA-mUrti, is this prostration. Commentary: From the atheism of the cArvAkas down to the Sunya theory of Buddhism, all the opinions are delusions. These delusions will vanish once the intuitive perception of the Transcendental Absolute dawns on us. The body cannot be the Self, because it is visible, it is inert, it has colour and form, it has parts, it is made up of the five elements of matter. Also, if body were the Self, even when it is sleeping, even when it is in coma, in fact, even after death, it should be able to recognize itself as 'I'. The senses cannot be the Self, because, the blind, the deaf, the lame all can recognize the 'I' in them. The vital breath prANa cannot be the Self because when the body is sleeping, the prANa is still working, but it is not sentient as is clear from the fact that it does not recognize the purse being pick-pocketed from its body. The intellect cannot be the Self because it exists neither before nor after life in the body and even while it exists in the body it is so full of change that you can never call it the immutable! Commentary and translation by Prof V Krishnamurthy The website is at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/2952/gohitvip/63page10.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 14, 1999 Report Share Posted October 14, 1999 > > K Kathirasan ADM NCS [sMTP:kathirasan] > Wednesday, October 13, 1999 1:29 PM > advaitin ; Ramakrishna > [ramakrishna] DakshiNa-mUrti ashTakam Verse 5 > > K Kathirasan ADM NCS <kathirasan > > Verse No.5 > > dehaM prANamapIndriyANyapi calAm buddhiM ca SUnyaM viduH > strI-bAlAndha-jaDopamAs-tvahamiti bhrAntA bhRSaM vAdinaH / > mAyA-Sakti-vilAsa-kalpita-mahA-vyAmoha-samhAriNe > tasmai SrI-guru-mUrtaye nama idaM SrI-dakshiNA-mUrtaye // > > Translation: > > Those who think of the body, breath, the senses, the changing intellect, > or > the void as the 'I', are just like deluded women, children, the blind and > the stupid who only talk much. To Him who destroys the great delusion > caused > by the expression of the power of mAyA, to Him of the form of the Guru, > (who has no confusion) the blessed dakshinA-mUrti, is this prostration. > [Madhava Replies:] My humble request to Prof. Krishnamurthiji is to provide word to word translation (pratipadArthaM) for this poem. Isn't there any significance for the word " SoonyaM " in the poem? Why did Adi Sankara used especially the word " Sunyam " ? Thank you, Madhava Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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