Tattvamasi - 01 (the hawk and the string)

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste,

Please see below the first in a series of talks made in connection with the mahAvAkya, tattvamasi, occurring in the sixth chapter of the Chandogya Upanishad. The mahavakya is repeated 9 times across the sixth adhyAya, in khaNDa-s 8 - 16. Associated with each instance of the tattvamasi is an example that conveys a particular idea. 

In the nyAyAmRta, it is argued that the split of the words (padacCheda) in the mantra - स य एषोऽणिमैतदात्म्यमिदं  सर्वं तत्सत्यं स आत्मातत्त्वमसि, should be स आत्मा अतत्त्वमसि, not स आत्मा तत्त्वमसि as argued by the advaitin. In support it is argued that none of the nine examples occurring in this chapter support an advaita interpretation, and therefore the the reading should be अतत्त्वमसि.

Each of these arguments are considered and refuted in the siddhi - I propose to cover some of these arguments in a series of talks, the first of which is here. The example is of the hawk tied to a string occurring in 6.8.2: 

स यथा शकुनिः सूत्रेण प्रबद्धो दिशं दिशं पतित्वान्यत्रायतनमलब्ध्वा बन्धनमेवोपश्रयत एवमेव खलु सोम्य तन्मनो दिशं दिशं पतित्वान्यत्रायतनमलब्ध्वा प्राणमेवोपश्रयते प्राणबन्धनं हि सोम्य मन इति ॥

https://youtu.be/QoiEcJhWlV8

Regards,

Venkatraghavan

[sunil bhattacharjya]

Dear friends,

Even in the Fifth Veda-text, the "Brahmanda Purana", Lord Ram gave the "tattvanasi" upadesha to  Shri Hanuman, Lord Ram also gave the "tattvamasi' upadesha to Shri Hanuman i another upanishada. As Shri Madhavacharya was not so well-read, he made the simple mistake in interpreting the Chandogya verse as "atatattvanamasi". Unfortunately his advatin guru was also not so well-read to correct his disciple, Madhacharya. The so-called scholarly disciples of Madhvacharya were also utterly  ignorant of this fact that Madhavacharya made a Himalayam Blunder.

Regards,

sunil KB

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[V Subrahmanian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoiEcJhWlV8&feature=youtu.be   

This talk on Tattvamasi has evoked an interesting exchange of comments that can be read for the great benefit of understanding those aspects of Vedanta.

regards

subbu

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