The word smriti in Sanskrit can be derived as smariya-theity, that which made me remember a snake. The other way of deriving the word is smara na mitti smriti - remembering, the act of remembering is smriti. It's referring to jhana dhyasa, the mistake in the level of understanding. Shankara Chariya gives a couple of examples of artha dhyasa.
Adhyasa Bhashya is Adi Shankara’s introduction to the Brahma Sutras. Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a brief overview of this commentary, over three sessions.
Reference material for this series:
- Adhyasa Bhashya in Sanskrit: https://arshavidyacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Swamini-Svatmavidya/collateral/Adhyasa-Bhashya.pdf
- Swami Gambhirananda's translation: preamble in chapter 1, section 1 of https://a.co/d/hEj8iQr
- Translation of the lectures of Dr. Mani Dravid Sastri: https://sanskritdocuments.org/sites/snsastri/adhyasabhashya.pdf
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