[Advaita-l] Adhyaropa-Apavada Nyaya.

[Sriram Krishnamurthy]

Dear Murthy Ji,
Mahavakya Vichara is a positive way to realize our identity as Brahman.
Meditating on the Phrase Sathyam, Jnanam, Anantham Brahma also helps.

Om Tat Sat,
Sriram

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Venkatesh Murthy <vmurthy36 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:57 PM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Your other question:
> >
> > //If Adhyaropa - Apavada Nyaya works why you do not get Moksha in sleep?
> >
> > In Sushupti sleep there is Apavada of Adhyaropa which is Dvaita
> >
> > Prapancha.  There is no duality in sleep.  Neha Nanasti Kinchana.  It
> >
> > is not Moksha.  You wake up and suffer in the Dvaita Prapancha. This
> >
> > happens every day. Why?//
> >
> > is answered thus:
> >
> > In suShupti there is the cessation of only the vyakta-dvaita.  The
> > avyakta-dvaita in the form of mUlAvidyA  is not annihilated; it
> > is still present.  Shankara calls it 'ज्ञानदाह्यवीजम्’ in the MandUkya
> > kArikA bhashya 1.2. (see p.190 of Sw. Gambhirananda's translation).
> > So, only when that beeja is destroyed, by conscious effort-born
> > realization, will there be no samsara for the jnani when he wakes
> > up from  sleep every day.  The 'apavAda' should result by the
> > samyag-jnAnam. Shankara, in that bhashya  discusses
> > the consequences of not admitting this beeja in deep sleep.
> >
> Namaste
>
> If Beeja is not destroyed in sleep is it right to say Adhyaropa
> Apavada will destroy Projection but Concealment of Brahman is not
> destroyed.  There was one mail  on Vikshepa and Avarana Saktis.
> Adhyaropa Apavada is a negative method.  By using it how can a
> Positive thing like Brahman come out? Neti Neti will negatively remove
> Projections. But will it remove Concealment?  The question - is
> Adhyaropa Apavada enough for Brahma Jnana? Or some other method also
> is required?
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> -Venkatesh
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