[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Gaudapada and Shankara say: the world is imagined by the jiva through avidya

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms Sri Subbu prabhuji
Hare Krishna

In his translation of this shloka and Bhashya, Sri SSS makes a special heading:

   ಒಳಗಿನ ಹೊರಗಿನ ವಸ್ತುಗಳೆರಡೂ ಕಲ್ಪಿತವೇ  (Both the internal and external objects are illusory/imagined)


  *   Whenever talks like this (i.e. imagination of external and internal things) in PTB there is suffix (if not everywhere at least most of the times) like independently from brahman, brahma vyatirikta, brahma vilakshaNa etc. to prove there exists nothing independently from brahman.  Sri SSS too emphasized this bhAshya pratijnA at somany places.  Just for your ready reference, in one of his kannada works after quoting mundaka shruti 2-2-11 : brahmaivedamamrutaM purastAt, brahma pashchaat brahma dashiNatashchOttareNa…brahmaivedaM vishvaM idaM varishTaM, he explains ( please read this in Kannada as I cannot type any other language other than English in my official laptop)  : avidyAdrushtiyinda namma munde enenu kaaNisuttiruvadO edellavu brahmave, hindiruvudu brahmave, balakku, edakku, mele, keelage  ellavu varishTavAda brahmave, hinde, munde emba deshavu, andu, indu emba kAlavU Addarinda emba ‘kArya-kAraNa bhAvavu ‘nijavaagi brahmave.  Brahmavallavendu naavu ariyuvudellavu haggadalliruva haavinarivinante avidyeyindaada vikalpa maatrave.  Edannu manavarike maaduvudakke shAstravu ‘edalla’ edalla’ endu allagaLeyuvudu.  And then He quotes kArika 2-38 and further explains : OLage deha, indriya, manassu muntaagi kANuva AdhyAtmika vikalpavellavannu ‘paramAtma tattvave endu aritukoLLabeku, horage kaaNuttiruva pruthivAdi vikalpagaLannu tattvavende kaNdukOllabeku.  tAnU tattvave, etc.  And at the bottom he insisted his stand by saying :  ede shAstra bOdhaneya krama, ede shAstrAThavannu aritu kOlluvadembudu.  ( English translation :  This is the way in which shAstra/scripture teaching us, and this is how we have to understand the scriptural meaning) If you agree what Sri SSS says here then only quote Sri SSS in support of your understanding of shAstra otherwise kindly stop quoting Sri SSS.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar