[Advaita-l] Question on adhyaasa

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Sadaji,
Yes, it is a cognitive process.

First one sees existence of the world. Then existence and the world.
Accompanying this is the realisation that if existence and the world are
separate, the world has no existence. Then all that remains is existence
- पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते.

This is the akhandAkAra vritti that removes mUlAvidya.

Regards
Venkatraghavan


On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, 02:41 kuntimaddi sadananda <kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com
wrote:

> Venkatraghavanji - PraNAms
>
>  Thanks for the post.
>
>  Just for clarification.
>
>  While the existence forms adhishTaanam for the world and thus they are
> together the removal of ignorance, therefore. involves cognitively
> recognizing the pure existence without attributes while seeing the world.
> It is like recognizing the sunlight while looking at the moon and its
> light. Without the presence of the moon, the sunlight cannot be recognized.
>
>  In addition, this recognition or realization can only be done with the
> mind enlivened by chidaabhaasa cognitively using vRitti jnaanam although
> there is no phala vyaapti since it is aparoxa jnanaam.
>
>  Hari Om!
> Sadananda
> ---------------------------------
>
>  On Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 11:03:02 PM GMT+5:30, Venkatraghavan S
> via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>  Therefore, the cognition that is capable of removing that
>
> ignorance (and thus samsAra) can only have brahman as its object, and not
>
> ignorance or its products. Any cognition of the existence of the world has
>
> both existence and the world (ie it has both brahman and the world, a
>
> product of ignorance) as its object, and therefore, such a cognition cannot
>
> remove the ignorance which is the cause of samsAra.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Venkatraghavan
>
> LP
>