Re: Siva Sutras
Originally Posted by
Madhavan
Avatar is not a vaishnavite concept, but a vedic one....
Brihadaranyaka 2.5.19:
" dashA ityayam vai harayO ayam vai dasha cha sahasrANI bahooni anantAni cha tadEtat brahma
apoorvam anaparam abaahyam ayamAtmA brahma sarvAnubhooriti anushAsanam"
harayah - The forms of Hari
dashA iti - are ten ( matsya, koorma,....)
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Namaste Madhavan,
I wonder where from Kurma, matsya etc. came from? Hehe?
That the ten harayO are the ten organs -- five of cognition and five of locomotion is very logical since it has been explained in the same upanishad that the one who breathes is the one God (hridaya within), and and He has all these organs.
Please do not mind my saying so, but I am a bit wary about the translations from Dvaita.com. A translation, which you may take or discard:
II-v-19: This is that meditation on things mutually helpful which Dadhyac, versed in the Atharva-Veda, taught the Asvins. Perceiving this the Rishi said, ‘(He) transformed Himself in accordance with each form; that form of His was for the sake of making Him known. The Lord on account of Maya (notions superimposed by ignorance) is perceived as manifold, for to Him are yoked ten organs, nay, hundreds of them. He is the organs; He is ten and thousands – many and infinite. That Brahman is without prior or posterior, without interior or exterior. This self, the perceiver of everything, is Brahman. This is the teaching.
Note: Though the translation has already been cited above, but I wished to point out that "This self, the perceiver of everything, is Brahman" and that there is no matsya kurma etc.
Om
Last edited by atanu; 06 October 2007 at 11:40 AM.
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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