[Advaita-l] HH Sri Paramananda Bharathi Swamiji attained mukti

[Venkatraghavan S]

PraNAms Sadaji,
Yes, if one sees any benefit in separating mAya and avidyA, one can do so.

The point I was making was in relation to the avidyA of everything, not
just Brahman.

Regards
Venkatraghavan


On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, 13:40 kuntimaddi sadananda, <kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday, August 1, 2019, 11:54:46 PM PDT, Venkatraghavan S via
> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
> Namaste Raghav ji,
> Or just take bhAva rUpa avidyA to mean it is abhAva vilakshaNa.
>
> The important thing is that ajnAna cannot mean jnAna abhAva. If so, then
> one would necessarily need pratiyogi jnAna to cognise abhAva. But if jnAna
> itself is pratiyogi, one would need to know jnAna to cognise ajnAna, which
> is a contradiction in terms.
>
> Better to say ajnAna is abhAva vilakshaNa padArtha that is sAkshi vedyam.
>
> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
> ----------------------------
>
> Venkatraghavanji - PraNAms
>
> Just saw your note.
>
> We are familiar with two aspects associated with avidya - one is aavarana
> shakti and the other is vikshepa shakti. It is easier for me to attribute
> aavarana aspect with avidya and vishepa aspect to maayaa since mind is
> required for the latter - since the projection is done by the mind as in
> waking and dream states. In deep sleep state since the mind is in subtle
> form, only aavarana is evident.
>
> Of course, one can argue that mind is also a product of avidya or muula
> avidya. There also we can associate the mind and the whole creation to an
> aspect of vishepa aspect of avidya.
>
> In that sense, we are separating the avidya and maaya to some extent.
>
> It is consistent with jeevan mukta where aavarana is eliminated while the
> vikshepa aspect of maaya remains until the BMI drops. In that sense one can
> remove the bhaava ruupa aspect to avidya and associate it to maayaa shakti.
> Since maaya is equated to prakriti which is also responsible for projection
> - mayaa adhyakshena prakRiti .. and prakRityavacha karmaani kriya maanaani
> sarvashaH..
> etc can be easily understood.
>
> My 2c.
>
> Hari Om!
> Sadananda
>