[INDOLOGY] The universe as an image in a mirror

[Nagaraj Paturi]

अथ एव चोपमासूर्यकादिवत् 3.2.28 ब्रह्मसूत्र

itself has the image/simile of images.

सूर्यक here means the Sun's image.

3.2.28 is part of explaining

न स्थानतोपि परस्योभयलिङ्गपरस्योभयलिङ्गं सर्वत्र हि 3.2.11

Thus 'image' as the relation between Brahman and the (entities in) Jagat is
not limited to Advaita Vedanta. It is common to all schools of Vedanta.

What Dakshinamurti stotra is specifically doing is making Jagat the image
of  Aatman inside the observer's ownself (निजांतर्गातं). For Advaita Aatman
= Brahman.



On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> The first verse of the Dakṣināmūrtistotram is:
>
> viśvaṁ darpaṇa-dṛśyamāna-nagarī-tulyaṁ nijāntar-gataṁ
>
> paśyann-ātmani māyayā bahir ivodbhutaṁ yathā nidrayā
>
> yaḥ sākṣāt kurute prabodha-samaye svātmanam evādvayaṁ
>
> tasmai śri-guru-mūrtaye nama idaṁ śri-dakṣināmūrtaye
>
>
> One of the reasons Amarhath Rai in his article "The Daksinamurti Hymn and
> the Manasollasa published in Vol. 6 of The Journal of Oriental Research,
> Madras, 1932 gives for rejecting Sankaracarya as the author is  the
> metaphor in the first verse of the world as an image in a mirror.
>
> Does  this metaphor of the world as an image in a mirror only appear in
> Kashmir Shaivite writings or does it occur in  the writings of other
> religous or philosophical schools.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Harry Spier
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-- 
Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.


BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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