[Advaita-l] A fine summary of Advaita doctrine
V Subrahmanian
v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Wed Mar 15 07:02:33 EDT 2017
An image from a verse and gloss of the Sankshepashāriraka 2.67 is uploaded
here. This verse, evaluating vikāra and vivarta, brings out the mithyātva
of the former:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/pk9u437h79rzg3g/vikaramithyatva_sank.sha.png
regards
subbu
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 4:19 PM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:03 PM, H S Chandramouli <
> hschandramouli at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:45 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
>>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>>> << In all bhrama-s the two adhyāsa-s are admitted >>,
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>>> And << That is why in the jivanmukti state, the artha, the world,
>>> continues to appear but the mithyātva nishchaya is also present >>,
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>>> The two appear to be contradictory. As per the above itself, arthAdhyAsa
>>> continues for a jnani while jnAnAdhyAsa is absent.
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> It is actually bādhitasya arthasya anuvṛttiḥ and hence no contradiction.
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>>> Reg << Whereas in the kārya adhyāsa, which is vyāvahārika, ajnātasattā
>>> is admitted,>>,
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>>> With reference to ajnātasattā, both kArya (pot/ornament) and kArana
>>> (clay/gold) are adhyAsa. Where kArana (clay/gold ) is admitted to be satya
>>> (vyAvahArika satya), there kArya (pot/ornament) is also admitted to be
>>> satya (vyAvahArika satya) as in << mruttiketyeva satyam >>. There is
>>> no case where kArana (clay/gold) is admitted to be satya while kArya
>>> (pot/ornament) is adhyAsa. That is the point being made.
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>> Here, the context of the analogy is that the taking the kārya to be real.
> This is what is stated to be wrong and the correction given out: the cause
> alone is real and the effect unreal.
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