[Advaita-l] Isvara and Saguna Brahman

[K Kathirasan NCS]

Michael Comans in his book 'The Early Method of Advaita Vedanta' agrees with
your observation. 

best regards,
K Kathirasan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Aravind Mohanram [SMTP:psuaravind at yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, February 22, 2004 4:02 AM
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> Subject:	Re: [Advaita-l] Isvara and Saguna Brahman
> 
> I read a scholarly work on Advaita which said that they are not. When
> Sankara differentiates between absolute brahman and isvara (when he
> invokes two levels of reality), isvara and saguna brahman are synonymous,
> but not when the term isvara is used by him to refer to absolute brahman,
> which the author says Sankara does in certain passages - he uses isvara,
> paramatman etc., interchangeably with para brahman and when he does that
> isvara is given a different meaning compared to saguna brahman (which
> denotes the world-creator). comments?
>  
> Aravind.
> 
> "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at braincells.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Aravind Mohanram wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > According to Sankara, is Isvara synonymous with Saguna Brahman?
> >
> 
> Yes.
> 
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> Jaldhar H. Vyas 
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