[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Does the mukta/jnani see the world?

[V Subrahmanian]

Sri Vidyaranya in his Anubhutiprakasha, on Aitareya Upanishad, says:

स्वप्नः स्वकाल एवास्ति नान्यदा सुप्तिजागरौं ।
तथैवेति स्वप्नसाम्यात् त्रयः स्वप्ना उदीरिताः || 17

Dream is present only during its existence; not during sleep and waking. In
the same way, being of the nature of dream, all the three states are stated
by the Upanishad as three dreams.

स्थूलसूक्ष्मबीजप्रपञ्चाः त्रयः स्वप्नाः - The gross, subtle and causal
worlds are three dreams - explains Upanishad Brahma Yogin for the Aitareya
mantra.

Also since there is ignorance about the Truth, which persists in all three
states, the svapnatvam of all three are admissible. We get this reasoning
from the Mandukya Karika:

अनादिमायया सुप्तो यदा जीवः प्रबुध्यते ।
अजमनिद्रमस्वप्नमद्वैतं बुध्यते तदा ॥ १६ ॥


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