[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Why only jagat is mithya and jeeva is brahman !!??
Bhaskar YR
bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com
Mon Mar 21 01:41:59 CDT 2016
praNAms Sri Ranjit prabhuji
Hare Krishna
Even this is my understanding. Clay-pot, gold-ornament is analogy given for cause-effect relation. Since the effect is non different from the cause, the effect should be discarded as they are not permanent.
> The contention here is not about equalizing the kAraNa brahman and kArya jagat on the ground of 'same' reality. As I have been saying and still reinterating that kArya is not different from kAraNaM in its svarUpa BUT in kAraNa there is no kArya bedha (neha nAnAsti kiMchana). It may be noted that we are not talking about brahman's svagata bheda by attributing nAma rUpa to brahman. Ofcourse there is no disagreement that jagat is vyaktAvyakta and not satyasya satya like brahman. But the contention is aimed more towards jagat as kArya for which brahman is abhinna nimittOpadAna kAraNam. From this point of view, shruti clarifies the jagat svarUpa. Before the srushti, the jagat remained subject only (avyAkruta, avyakta) to one word and thought only i.e. Atman (AtmAmeva idamagra Asit, ekamevAdviteeyaM). And now, after creation, jagat is available for many words and thoughts and also is available to one and only word and thought i.e. Atman. Even if you see the nAma rUpa bhedAkAra in jagat, what is there in its sadrUpa is brahman only nothing else. This has been clearly stated by shankara in sUtra bhAshya, even the forms (nAma rUpa) are indeed of the nature of cause because there cannot be an effect coming into existence without cause and if it (effect) is not the nature of the cause. Shankara, again in bruhadAraNyaka clarifies further : parameshwara himself in the form of avyAkruta jagat.
Here the nondual cause is ever permanent and never the effect. Further the cause is nondual but the effects are many. This is the analogy.
> From the kArya - kAraNa ananyatvaM it has been clarified that like cause, effect too trikAla abhAditaM by shankara.
Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar
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