[Advaita-l] Re: More on Paurusha

[Sylvain]

In other words while it is
> important to ask "what is real and what is unreal?", the question that 
> should be asked is, "What is true and what is false?"

          *

Or " What is helpful to our spiritual evolution and what is not ".

sylvain

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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Subject: Re: Fw: [Advaita-l] More on Paurusha


> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Ramesh Krishnamurthy wrote:
>
>> RK:
>> **I am not implying that karma is the only obstacle to mukti. Rather,
>> what I am saying is that if karma means only yaj~na, then sannyAsa
>> (which in advaita is the renunciation of karma) should only mean the
>> cessation of yaj~na, instead of renunciation of family ties, etc. This
>> is obviously not the case.
>>
>
> Unfortunately there are many wouldbe Vedantins who think that giving up 
> "ritualism" but not their fancy car, hose etc. is some kind of 
> achievement.
>
>> SSN:
>>> >  Illusion is a widely used translation of MithyA, and I am not even
>> sure it is a lazy translation.
>>
>> RK:
>> **IMO, it is a lazy translation. In fact, I would say that it is a
>> translation that has promoted serious misunderstandings of the system
>> of advaita-vedAnta. The world does not disappear for the mukta. He
>> still eats, sleeps and talks. But he sees everything as being
>> non-different from brahman.
>>
>
> The problem is that the word illusion implies a perceptual problem but 
> mithyatva is primararily an ontological problem which just happens to 
> manifest sometimes as a perceptual problem.  In other words while it is 
> important to ask "what is real and what is unreal?", the question that 
> should be asked is, "What is true and what is false?"
>
>
>
>> Apart from the bR^ihat YV and the laghu YV, there is a also a 230
>> verse text called the YV-sAra, which has been translated into English
>> by one Swami Sureshananda and published by Ramanashramam. This text is
>> available online, and it is easy to see that it teaches nothing but
>> advaita.
>
> There's one more: laghu yoga vasishta sara sangraha by Swami Jnanananda 
> Bharati in 1698 shlokas. It is published along with an English translation 
> by Samata Books as "The Essence of Yogavasishta.
> (http:///www.samatabooks.com/BookDetails.asp?Language=2&Books=8)
>
> -- 
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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