[Advaita-l] [advaitin] request for PTB support for DSV and EJV

Bhaskar YR bhaskar.yr at hitachienergy.com
Tue Jan 13 23:56:39 EST 2026


Would our esteemed members kindly contribute Prasthanatraya Sankara bhasya references/citation that support Drsti Srsti vada and/or Eka jiva vada.

praNAms
Hare Krishna

No, I doubt we can find any supporting statements of DSV in shankara’s PTB.  At the best the advocators of this theory may find some solace in the kArika-s of gaudapAda and kArika bhAshya (where the similarities of waking and dreaming world explained) to develop the theory of DSV which is more or less vijnAnavAda of Buddhism which shankara himself taken it for refutation in sUtra bhAshya.  Yes world has been explained as mental (brahma mAnasa pratyaya) at some places but definitely not in the sense that jagat is the mental creation of conditioned mind of eka jeeva like I am so and so, creating this whole world including chetanaachetana vastu out of my own whims and fancies 😊The direct refutation of these fanciful arguments can be found in sUtra (2nd adhyAya) and Mundaka shruti bhAshya.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar


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