[Continued from Part – 1]
Does this all amount to showing disrespect or arriving at too quick an intellectual claim that “I am brahman and after all this guru (of mine) is also my dream character?”
The answer is that it will never be the case for a proper adhikAri.
It is always like how bhagavatpAda Shri Shankara expresses in a concluding salutation for mANDUkya kArikA:
यत्प्रज्ञालोकभासा प्रतिहतिमगमत्स्वान्तमोहान्धकारो
मज्जोन्मज्जच्च घोरे ह्यसकृदुपजनोदन्वति त्रासने मे ।
यत्पादावाश्रितानां श्रुतिशमविनयप्राप्तिरग्न्या ह्यमोघा
तत्पादौ पावनीयौ भवभयविनुदौ सर्वभावैर्नमस्ये ॥ — verse 3, Shankara at the end of mANDUkya kArikA. Continue reading