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Date: Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 6:54 PM
Subject: Advaita Siddhi - Mithyatva methodology
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In these five ways the celebrated scholar Sri Madhusudana Sarasvati sought
to establish the Mithyatva of the world according to the purport of the
Upanishadic sentences like 'Here there is no plurality', The knower of the
Self goes beyond sorrow' etc Certainty of the world's falsity, he held,
helps one to experience non-duality.

(1) The world lacks the utter absence of absolute reality (always
self-luminous) as well as of its absolute unreality (which is nowhere and
never perceptible).
(2) A superimposition is what is really never present in its substratum at
any time. Where it is seen it is really not. In Brahman the world of
difference is not. In other words, the absence of the world is always
present and is non-different from Brahman. Its counterpositive, the world,
is empirically real. But, in as much as the world as well as its absence
are both perceptible, both are negated. In any case, the perceptible world
by its very nature never abides in Brahman, the sole substratum of
everything. So, the world is Mithya, while the absence of Mithyatva is
Brahman.
(3) As already indicated, because the world of name and form along with its
cause is removable by the knowledge of the Self (the substra tum) it is the
contrapositive of the absence coinciding with the intuition of the
substratum. Hence also it is Mithya.
(4) Perceptibility of a thing as existing where it is not makes it out to
be false. The world is the contrapositive of the utter absence of itself in
its own basis. Therefore it is Mithya.
(5) The knowledge of unity taught by the Upanishadic sentences is through a
means of valid knowledge which has no defect, while the knowledge of
multiplicity is through a means of knowledge which is not free from
defects. The former is absolutely real, while the latter is not, but yet
perceptible, In other words, what is different from that which is
established by an undefective means of knowledge is Mithya. The world being
such is Mithya.

-Excerpt from Sri Satchidananda Murthy's Advaitic Notion

#Sringeri #Jagadguru #SriSri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji was greatly
impressed by this hand book and spoke thus "The interpretation on which he
dwells, at some length, are clear enough to explain the abstruse indirect
expressions to those permeated with modern education. The English-knowing
aspirants after truth will be benefited by this brochure (a delightful
reading) which is free from intricacies, and makes a direct approach to put
forward certain arguments. We wish the Professor (now in his years of
mellowed fruitfulness) would publish many more illuminating treatises, to
spread the message of Vedanta, to all the corners of the world."