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is spoken of not simply as the knower of the real
purport of the Vedanta, but as the knower of
the established tradition regarding it (sampra-
daya-vid). The doctrine, therefore, propounded
by Sankara is one which in his time had become
recognised as having a venerable antiquity and
as represented by numerous Purvacharyas to
whom, as already stated, he pays his meed of
homage in his Bhashya on the Taittiriya-Upanis-
had. Moreover. in his Gita-Bhashya, Sankara
makes the following statement: "faa
सर्वशास्त्रविदपि मूर्खवदेव उपेक्षणीय: " "Whatsoever his
mastery of all other branches of knowledge, he
who does not know the sampradaya must be
discarded in the same way as we discard all per-
verse and ignorant people." In his Bhashya on
Prasna-Upanishad, he says:
हित्वा
सर्वमभिमानं न त्वभिमानेन वर्षशतेनापि श्रुत्यर्थो ज्ञातुं शक्यते सर्वैः
पण्डितंमन्यैः " "Give up all your egotistic fancies,
and listen to the meaning of the Sruti. Inde-
pendent effort, even if continued for a hundred
years, cannot disclose the true import of the
Sruti to those whose heads are filled with self-
conceit and who foolishly assume that they can
know it for themselves (without the teacher's
"
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is spoken of not simply as the knower of the real
purport of the Vedanta, but as the knower of
the established tradition regarding it (sampra-
daya-vid). The doctrine, therefore, propounded
by Sankara is one which in his time had become
recognised as having a venerable antiquity and
as represented by numerous Purvacharyas to
whom, as already stated, he pays his meed of
homage in his Bhashya on the Taittiriya-Upanis-
had. Moreover. in his Gita-Bhashya, Sankara
makes the following statement: "faa
सर्वशास्त्रविदपि मूर्खवदेव उपेक्षणीय: " "Whatsoever his
mastery of all other branches of knowledge, he
who does not know the sampradaya must be
discarded in the same way as we discard all per-
verse and ignorant people." In his Bhashya on
Prasna-Upanishad, he says:
हित्वा
सर्वमभिमानं न त्वभिमानेन वर्षशतेनापि श्रुत्यर्थो ज्ञातुं शक्यते सर्वैः
पण्डितंमन्यैः " "Give up all your egotistic fancies,
and listen to the meaning of the Sruti. Inde-
pendent effort, even if continued for a hundred
years, cannot disclose the true import of the
Sruti to those whose heads are filled with self-
conceit and who foolishly assume that they can
know it for themselves (without the teacher's
"
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