[Advaita-l] Debunking Drishti-Srishti Vada and Eka Jiva Vada - part 1

[Aditya Kumar]

Yes, so Brahman has imagined both 'me' as well as others in the world. Both this 'Me'(Jiva) and others (other Jivas) are equally unreal. Jivo brahmaiva na para: Each Jiva has to realize it. Everything ends in Shantam Shiva Advaitam brahma and not in the one and only Jiva!
Gaudapada is using the word 'Chitta'. Brahman is Chinmatra. So he is referring to Brahman. All the multitude of jivas - including the Jiva who is perceiving such variety - are equally unreal just like in a dream. 

      From: V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Aditya Kumar <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Suppose in my dream, the dream me sees a dream tiger and is struck with fear. When I wake up, I should consider both dream me and dream tiger as unreal or both as real. Similarly, after realisation, both the waking me and other jivas are unreal. So there is no premise for EJV. Only Eka Brahman. So when you say - "In your imagination, only you are a sajiva jiva", you mean to say 'Brahman's imagination? or 'Aditya's' imagination?

It is Brahman which has assumed itself to be Aditya. That is why Aditya, when he comes to Self-realization, knows himself as 'I am / was / will be/ Brahman. I am the All.' as articulated in the Br.Up.1.4.10 and bhashya. 

The GK 4.63 onward is a fine lesson in EJV:
61-62 As in dreams the mind acts through maya, presenting the appearance of duality, so also in the waking state the mind acts through maya, presenting the appearance of duality. There is no doubt that the mind, which is in reality non-dual, appears to be dual in dreams; likewise, there is no doubt that what is non-dual i.e. Atman, appears to be dual in the waking state.63 The dreamer, wandering about in all the ten directions in his dream, sees the whole variety of jivas, born of eggs, moisture, etc. 64 These entities, which are objects of the mind of the dreamer, do not exist apart from his mind. Likewise, the mind of the dreamer is an object of perception of the dreamer alone. 65-66 The waking man, wandering about in all the ten directions in his waking state, sees the whole variety of jivas, born of eggs, moisture, etc. They are the objects of the mind of the waking man and do not exist apart from it. Likewise, the mind of the waking man is an object of his perception alone. 
स्वप्नदृक्प्रचरन्स्वप्ने दिक्षु वै दशसु स्थितान् । 
अण्डजान्स्वेदजान्वापि जीवान्पश्यति यान्सदा ॥ ६३ ॥ भाष्यम्इतश्च वाग्गोचरस्याभावो द्वैतस्य — स्वप्नान्पश्यतीति स्वप्नदृक् प्रचरन् पर्यटन्स्वप्ने स्वप्नस्थाने दिक्षु वै दशसु स्थितान् वर्तमानान् जीवान्प्राणिनः अण्डजान्स्वेदजान्वा यान् सदा पश्यतीति ॥स्वप्नदृक्चित्तदृश्यास्ते न विद्यन्ते ततः पृथक् । 
तथा तद्दृश्यमेवेदं स्वप्नदृक्चित्तमिष्यते ॥ ६४ ॥ भाष्यम्यद्येवम् , ततः किम् ? उच्यते — स्वप्नदृशश्चित्तं स्वप्नदृक्चित्तम् , तेन दृश्याः ते जीवाः ; ततः तस्मात् स्वप्नदृक्चित्तात् पृथक् न विद्यन्ते न सन्तीत्यर्थः । चित्तमेव ह्यनेकजीवादिभेदाकारेण विकल्प्यते । तथा तदपि स्वप्नदृक्चित्तमिदं तद्दृश्यमेव, तेन स्वप्नदृशा दृश्यं तद्दृश्यम् । अतः स्वप्नदृग्व्यतिरेकेण चित्तं नाम नास्तीत्यर्थः ॥चरञ्जागरिते जाग्रद्दिक्षु वै दशसु स्थितान् । 
अण्डजान्स्वेदजान्वापि जीवान्पश्यति यान्सदा ॥ ६५ ॥जाग्रच्चित्तेक्षणीयास्ते न विद्यन्ते ततः पृथक् । 
तथा तद्दृश्यमेवेदं जाग्रतश्चित्तमिष्यते ॥ ६६ ॥ भाष्यम्जाग्रतो दृश्या जीवाः तच्चित्ताव्यतिरिक्ताः, चित्तेक्षणीयत्वात् , स्वप्नदृक्चित्तेक्षणीयजीववत् । तच्च जीवेक्षणात्मकं चित्तं द्रष्टुरव्यतिरिक्तं द्रष्टृदृश्यत्वात् स्वप्नचित्तवत् । उक्तार्थमन्यत् ॥



Gaudapada makes it clear in his Karika :
3.3: “Atman may be said to be similar to akasa manifested in the forms of the jivas which may be compared to the ether enclosed in the pots”4.92: “All jivas are, by their very nature illumined from the very beginning and they are immutable in their nature”