[Advaita-l] mUlAvidyA according to panchapAdika & vivaraNa

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:

> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
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> H.H. Sri SSS in one of his Kannada works, explains avidyA according to
> paNchapAdika/ vivaraNa...According to this avidyA svarUpa is :
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> (a) anAdi, anirvachaneeya and it has ashraya in Atma chaitanya.
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> (b)  it is neither agrahaNa nor anyathAgrahaNa nor the saMskAra of these
> two
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> (c)  it is not an antaHkaraNa dOsha
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Just like the 'jnAnaabhAva' of Sri SSS's school.

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> (d) it is jnAna virOdhi, bhAva rUpa avidyA
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> (e)  it is the upAdAna kAraNa for adhyAsa (superimposing one thing on
> another).
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> (f)  it covers Atman in sushupti through vikshepa saMskAra, converts as
> 'ahaMkAra' in waking state
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> (g) synonyms for avidyA are  nAma rUpa, avyAkruta, mAyA, mahAsupti,
> akshara, AkAsha etc.
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> (h)  it is neither sat nor asat hence it is anirvachaneeya
>

This is what is meant by the word 'mithyA' (ajnAnam).  Such an 'entity'
cannot be counted as a second and pose a threat to Brahman's advitIyatvam.


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> (i) since it has the ashraya of chaitanya satta, it is anAdi
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The 'jnAnaabhAva' introduced by Sri SSS into ShAnkara siddhAnta too cannot
be said to have a beginning; it has to be anAdi alone.

subrahmanian.v

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