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Bhagavan Badarayana is an Abheda-vaadi says Shandilya Bhakti sutra
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Mahamahopadhyaya Gopinath Kaviraj ji makes an interesting observation in his book ‘Bharatiya Sanskriti aur Sadhana’ while discussing Advaita Vedanta. In his Bhakti Sutras, Shri Shandilya ji presents Kshyapa and Bhagavan Badarayana’s views before stating his own. While doing so, he describes Bhagavan Badarayana as an Abedha-vadi. The earliest commentary on the Bhakti sutras by Swapneshwara also clarifes that Bhagavan Badarayana is an Advaitian. This favours the position of Advaita Vedanta which professes Advaita as Vyasabhimata siddhanta. The same has been established by Shri Ayyanna Deekshitar ji in his ‘Vyasa Tatparya Nirnaya’, where similar instances are quoted to show that all the rival darshanas of Vedanta held Advaita only as the purport of Badarayana sutras.
The snaps of the Shandilya Sutra with Swapneshwara bhahsya (Sanskrit text and English translation) and notes from Pt Gopinath Kaviraj are attached below.
One can read the images in the FB post linked above.
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subbu