[Advaita-l] A replica of Adhyasa Bhashya in the Gita Bhashya13.26

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Chandramouli ji
Your post clears the matter entirely.  Thank you for the entire discussion

 I did not know that the siddhAnta bindu explains these matters in detail.

Om

On Mon, 4 May, 2020, 9:37 PM H S Chandramouli, <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Raghav Ji,
>
> Namaste.
>
> I will paraphrase what I wrote earlier in order to simplify matters.
>
> Two definitions for adhyAsa have been given in the Bhashya.
>
> <<  अध्यासो नाम अतस्मिंस्तद्बुद्धिरित्यवोचाम । >>  << adhyAso nAma
> atasmiMstadbuddhirityavochAma | >>
>
> and
>
> << स्मृतिरूपः परत्र
> पूर्वदृष्टावभासः >>  << smRRitirUpaH paratra pUrvadRRiShTAvabhAsaH >>
>
> There is the fundamental superimposition of avidyA on The Self which is
> the primary cause of all Creation. This adhyAsa is covered under the first
> definition given above.
>
> Then we have the superimposition of the products of avidyA, like the
> ego,BMI,objects etc, on The Self as opposed to that of avidyA itself. Both
> the definitions given above are applicable to this. All types of
> combinations of vishaya,vishayi,their dharmas etc are covered under this.
>
> I presume this clears all the doubts.
>
> You may also like to refer to Sidhanta Bindu of Sri MS translated with
> notes and commentary by Sri PC Divanji for clarity. Many of the points I
> have made in this thread are based on this.
> Regards
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 9:06 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Namaste Chandramouli ji
>> In my previous mail I had interchanged the two ideas mentioned by you.. My
>> apologies for the same. To set things right you can ignore my last mail
>> altogether.
>>
>> In order to check if I got you right -
>> You wrote that
>> jIva Ishvara bheda adhyAsa is smRitirUpa paratra pUrva dRShTAvabhAsaH? And
>> this is also the same as vishaya dharma-s of mortality, smallness etc.,
>> superimposed on the viShayin? We superimpose alpatvaM and martyatvaM
>> (viShaya dharmas) on viShayI leading to the viShayI being considered
>> different from Ishvara.
>>
>>
>> If this is correct, then -
>>
>> This smRiti-rUpa definition does not apply to the case of viShayI dharmas
>> of ananda etc., superimposed on viShayas?  My past habits/memories of
>> taking Ananda as coming from an object makes me again and again go after
>> the object for Ananda. Can we not apply smRiti rUpa paratra
>> pUrvadRShTAvabhAsaH for the adhyAsa of ananda etc., on objects?
>>
>> Thank you for your inputs.
>>
>> Om
>>
>>
>>
>>
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