[Advaita-l] Sandhyadhikaranam in the three schools

[H S Chandramouli]

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> Reg BSB 3-2-4 cited, the immediately preceding paragraph of the same
> Bhashya itself clarifies the point.
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> << यथा ‘लाङ्गलं गवादीनुद्वहति’ इति निमित्तमात्रत्वादेवमुच्यते, न तु
> प्रत्यक्षमेव लाङ्गलं गवादीनुद्वहति ; एवं निमित्तमात्रत्वात् — सुप्तो
> रथादीन्सृजते, ‘स हि कर्ता’ — इति च उच्यते ; न तु प्रत्यक्षमेव सुप्तो
> रथादीन्सृजति ।>>,
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> << yathA ‘lA~NgalaM gavAdInudvahati’ iti nimittamAtratvAdevamuchyate, na
> tu pratyakShameva lA~NgalaM gavAdInudvahati ; evaM nimittamAtratvAt — supto
> rathAdInsRRijate, ‘sa hi kartA’ — iti cha uchyate ; na tu pratyakShameva
> supto rathAdInsRRijati | >>,
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> Translation (Swami Gambhirananda)  << This is like the statement, “The
> plough sustains the bullocks”, where the plough is said to be the cause of
> sustenance because it is metaphorically so. Not that the plough really
> sustains the bullocks etc. So also from the mere fact that a sleeping man
> becomes an accidental cause for the creation, it is said that he creates
> the chariot etc. and that “he is the agent” >>. ( The last part namely
> “not that the sleeping man actually creates the chariot etc” appears to
> have been left out in the translation by Swami G).
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> I will leave it at this before it turns out to be another longwinding
> session on jIva vis a vis Iswara as the Creator even of the jAgrat srishti,
> dream vis a vis jAgrat, SDV vis a vis DSV etc.
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> Regards
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