[Advaita-l] Meet on Advaita Vedanta in Bangalore - May 7 to 8. 2013

[vinayaka ns]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:53 PM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On the topics of avidyA persisting in suShupti there indeed was a
> vociferous debate, as it could be expected.  At one occasion Vidwan Mani
> Dravid SastriNaH (MDS) read out a brahmasutra bhashya portion for the sutra
> 'sa eva tu karmAnusmRtiushabdavidhibhyaH' 3.2.9, the highlights of which
> is:
>
> // Here, the question discussed is whether the one who has attained union
> with the Sat during deep sleep rises from sleep or a different one.  The
> objection is that there is no rule that the same jIva who went to sleep
> emerges therefrom.  Just as when in a reservoir a drop of water is put it
> becomes one with the water there.  When one takes out a drop of water from
> there, it is impossible that it is the same drop which was put there.
>
> To this the siddhAntin says: it is the same jIva that comes out from
> sleep.
> After a fairly fine discussion on this, the objector's example is taken up
> for settlement:  In the drop-water analogy it is quite alright that there
> is no way of differentiating it is not possible to take out the 'same'
> drop.  But in the case of the jiva, however, there is this* differentiating
> factor called: karma and avidyA.  *//
>
> When this highlighted sentence of the bhAShyam which explicitly says that
> there is avidyA that is the differentiating factor for the jIva, the party
> that does not accept this made a protest saying that:
>
> 1. Sri SSS had given a footnote to that bhashya (as usual) to give it a
> different interpretation.
>
> 2. The above bhAShya has to be seen as gauNa, the mukhya being the ones in
> the Br.up. Bhashya which forms the basis for them to conclude that there is
> no avidyA for the jiva in suShupti.
>
>
>
Are there any other instances where BSB is treated as gauNa and is made
subservient to the Upanishad bhAshyas? Especially w.r.t. key issues like
avidyA in sushupti/samAdhi abhyAsa etc?


Best Wishes,

Vinayaka