[Advaita-l] Padmapadacharya gives a long list of synonyms for Ignorance

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:38 PM Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> praNAms Sri Srinivas Prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> Is  this  avidyA  same  as  the ones  mentioned  in the  long  list  of
> synonyms  for  ignorance.Clarification  is  requested.
>
> >  For that matter synonyms provided for avidya by vyAkhyAna  grantha are
> quite dubious and debatable.  I don’t know how can terms like  prakruti,
> AkAsha, mAyA, avyAkrutaM, avyaktaM etc. be paryAya for avidyA.  If we say
> AkAsha is avidyA then we have to say there is a birth to avidyA from Atman,




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इति
श्रुतेः ;   sutra bhasya. 1.4.3.

regards
subbu



> AtmanaH AkAsh saMbhUtaH, AkAshAt vAyuH etc. and prakruti, lord says he has
> two types of prakruti one is para and another is apara so, bhagavAn has two
> types of avidyA then.  That too he acknowledges it as 'mama prakruti',
> 'mama mAya'  😊 and through this prakruti dvaya he says he is the sarvajna,
> Ishwara etc.  prakrutidvayadvareNa ahaM sarvajnaH, IshwarO jagataH kAraNaM
> ityarthaH, says Geeta bhAshyakAra.  And that  mayAntu prakrutiM vidyAm
> mAyinantu maheshwaraM, mAyin maheshwara is avidyAvaNta as per
> mAyA=prakruti=avidyA 😊 So, vyAkhyAna-s should always be given second tier
> status when mUla bhAshya / shruti / smruti  says entirely different thing.
>
> >  And it is always better to leave all these things AS IT IS  to flow in
> tradition to protect the 'traditional teaching'.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
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