[Advaita-l] 'Difference' is due to 'upAdhi'

[V Subrahmanian]

Namaste.

In the Brahmasutra Bhashya 'ata eva chopamA sUryakAdivat' (3.2.18) Sri
Shankaracharya quotes a passage as follows:

//....जलसूर्यकादिवदित्युपमोपादीयते *मोक्षशास्त्रे* -


‘यथा ह्ययं ज्योतिरात्मा विवस्वानपो भिन्ना बहुधैकोऽनुगच्छन् ।

*उपाधिना क्रियते भेदरूपो*  देवः क्षेत्रेष्वेमजोऽयमात्मा । इति । (shruti
reference not given anywhere)


एक एव हि भूतात्मा भूते भूते व्यवस्थितः । एकधा बहुधा चैव दृश्यते जलचन्द्रवत्
[ब्रह्मबिन्दूपनिषत् १२] इत्येवमादिषु । [This is reminiscent of the
Kathopanishat mantras 2.2.9, 10, 11 and 12 : अग्निर्यथैको भुवनं प्रविष्टः
रूपं रूपं प्रतिरूपं बभूव....etc.]


Thus there is ample proof in the Upanishads for the fact that differences
are aupAdhika.  The first quoted shruti is quoted by Jiva Goswami (Gaudiya
Vaishnava) also in his ‘satsandarbha’ commentary on the Srimadbhagavatam.  He
also marks it as a shruti.


Is there any clue as to which shruti the first quoted passage in the BSB
above belongs?  It surely must be from a shruti as Shankara says:
*मोक्षशास्त्रे.
*Have any other Acharyas quoted this Shruti/passage?


Regards,

subrahmanian.v
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