[Advaita-l] [advaitin] BrihadAraNyaka 4.3.19 and Aitareya 1.3.12

[Ajit Krishnan]

namaste,

Six entities are accepted to be anAdi in advaita ...
>
> Recently, I came to know through the note by R Krishnamurti Shastri ji that
> there are eight anAdi entities. Two additional entities are jIva-chit-bheda
> and Ishwara-chit-bheda. ...
>
> अत एव 'जीव ईशो विशुद्धा चित् *भेदस्तस्याः तयोर्द्वयोः *।
> अविद्यातत्चितोर्योगः
> षडस्माकमनादयः' इत्यपि पठन्ति ।



samskr̥ta vicāra sāgara (āvarta 93) glosses 'तथा जीवेश्वयोः भिदा' as
'अनादिवस्तूनां परस्परं भेदः, जीवेशयोश्च भेदः'. Thereby accepting 6 anādis,
but including the additional bhedas mentioned above. All paraspara bhedas
of the anādis, in this view, are also anādi.

    ajit