[Advaita-l] Is the concept of maya essential to explain advaita?

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya,

Dear friends,

If I may share my views and put the things in a somewhat elaborate way. 

In the Vyavaharika level the Avidya theory. indicates what is at the 

paramarthika level. At the Paramarthika level, to be more precise at the 

level of Apara Brahman or the the Para-Prakriti level also including the 

Jivanmukta level the theory of Maya is really meaningful for describing the 

Vyavaharika level. . At the level of  Para Brahman, of course no examples 

or propositions or logic need to be used.

Regards,

Sunil KB


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 From: vaidehi chaitanya <vaidehi.chaitanya at gmail.com>
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Hari Om

I understand in the following way.

The explanation about the advaita is made from the realm of  two levels of
realtiy or satta
a)  the vyavaharika satta ot transactional reality level wherein avidya -
maya or reflection theory or limitation theroies are used to indicate the
Absolute.
b) in paramarthika satta level or the absolute reality level no examples or
propositions or logic needs to be used. A statement is made or several
statements are made about the same Absolute.

Hence, it is important to see from which level of reality or satta we wish
to understand/ Understand. hence, the answer to the question is

from the paramarthika satta avidya - maya or theories are not required
from vyavharika satta these are required to refer to the Absolute truth.


Salutations to the Absolute seen through this mail  ( even this is
Vyavaharika Satta)

Hari Om

Vaidehi chaitanya

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Rajaram Venkataramani <
rajaramvenk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shri R Balasubramanian, Former Chairman, Indian Council of
> Philosophical Reasearch, observes in his foreword to The sruti sAra
> samuddharana of Sri Totakacharya, "Though the concept of maya-avidya
> is important in Advaita, there is no reference to it in the text. Nor
> is there any discussion about the the tenability of the reflection
> theory or of the limitation theory. The reason for this is that it is
> quite possible to explain the central thesis of Advaita without
> bringing in the concept of maya-avidya and getting into complicated
> arguments about these theories for the purpose of explaining the
> relation between the jiva and Brahman." Hence my question stated in
> the title of this post.
>
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