[Advaita-l] Real vs. Unreal

[balagopal ramakrishnan]

just an interesting input that came across in today's news - is the universe a hologram? physicists say it's possible, as the clearest evidence yet that the universe could be just one big projection! ( theoritical physicist Juan Maldacena's, 1997 model can be read at-http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200)

Regards

Balagopal



On Thursday, 12 December 2013 12:40 PM, balagopal ramakrishnan <rbalpal at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
 


>>>The world is not what it appears to be but the question is whether it has existence or not is the question.


Yes, it has existence, Rajaram Ji (none can deny it, because we are experiencing it!) - but, transactionally not absolutely i.e it is ever changing putting one into a fix disabling him from really pin point and say - yes, this is it. By the time he says so it would have changed forcing him to say - not this - ma ya.

The mistake we often make is about the 'real & unreal'. Dream is 'the reality' while I am in the 'dream state' - the 'dream thirst' is for 'real', for my throat and mouth are parched up and it's quenched when I drink the 'dream water' - and 'realises' its unreality on waking up. So the real & unreal are not absolute but relative.  Now the world I experience in the 'waking state' is also 'unreal' when I gain 'self knowledge'. Here the sublimation is in a different way. Even after the self knowledge the world exists as the 'mirage' is still seen after knowing the 'unreality' of the mirage water.  It's an understanding. As one clears the existing vasanas & prarabdhams in such a way that no new ones are being added, he /she will finally stop from falling in to this stubborn dream (samasara) again. Since enquiring the 'world' leads to infinite regression, it is advised to look for 'brahman', knowing which the unreal disappears as the darkness goes with
light.

Regards

Balagopal



On Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:55 AM, "rajaramvenk at gmail.com" <rajaramvenk at gmail.com> wrote:

I think the scholars are missing my question or argument. Let me re-phrase for clarity. We don't need sastras or a guru to determine a. I exist or b. The world is not what it appears to be. My existence is self - evident to me. I know that a pot is clay, which in turn is made of elements, which in turn is form of energy. A pot is not what it appears to be. I need sastras only to tell me of things I can't know otherwise - the future effect of dharma and adharma, existence of unseen realities such as devas and Ishwara. 

The world is not what it appears to be but the question is whether it has existence or not is the question. The inevitability of the experience of a pot even for a jnani makes us wonder whether his conclusion that the world was never created and does not exist is true. If we see water on a desert land during summer afternoon, we will think its a mirage but if we see it even after the sun sets (equivalent of dawn of knowledge), will we say that there's no water? 
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> H S CHANDRAMOULI
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Let me add my 2 cents views on the subject of Mithya which i understand fro
> VMjis mail has been discussed elaborately earlier.
> 
> Mithya has no doubt many definitions like nonindependant, nonpermanent etc.
> But i think for understanding its implications it is useful to understand
> it as a mixture of real ( that is vastu ) and unreal ( that is a-vastu )
> . When we see a pot we say the "pot is".When we see a cloth we say " cloth
> is ". Similarly " creation is ". 



Yes, this mixture of the really real and the other is indeed the crucial meaning
of mithyAtva. The taittirIya upanishad says, "satyaM ca anRtaM ca satyam
abhavat. yad idaM kiM ca." Accordingly, Sankara bhagavatpAda uses the term
"satyAnRte maithunIkRtya" in the sUtrabhAshya. What SAstra helps us do is to
separate out the satya from the anRta that come to us in a mixed way in all
our sensory experiences.



Best regards,

Vidyasankar
                          
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