[Advaita-l] Sringeri AchAryas on the VivaraNa - the cause of adhyAsa

[S Jayanarayanan]

--- Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rama.balasubramanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

[..]

> But note that even SSS himself finds this verse problematic, and
> ascribes it a "scribal error" in one of his books. I have no desire
> to
> dig up the page numbers at this point of time.

But if you actually do find the exact reference for the "scribal
error", that will be great.

> First read a verse as it is, and the adjacent verses in *that
> work*.
> It is clear Sureshvara does not do any such thing as you say below,
> which is precisely the case SSS himself  finds it problematic.
> 
> BTW, do you know that SSS himself reluctantly admits that Gaudapada
> uses maayaa in the sense of avidyaa (exactly equivalent)?
> 

The above reference will be useful too.

> Rama
> 
> On 3/9/07, bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:
> >
> > It is not only Padmapada, but also Sureshvara who accepts
> Ignorance
> > as a Material Cause:
> >
> >
>
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/1998-September/010134.html
> >
> >
> > "Further BUBhVa 1.4.371 (purushhavida brAhmaNa),
> >
> > asya dvaita indrjAlasya yat.h upAdAnakAraNam.h |
> > aGYAnaM tat.h upAshritya brahma kAraNaM uchyate ||
> >
> > Having relied on that ignorance which is the material cause of
> this
> > great magic of duality,
> > It is said that brahman is the cause [though there is no cause
> nor
> > effect, but brahman alone]."
> >



 
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