[Advaita-l] 'world' is not the mental creation of tiny soul !!

[H S Chandramouli]

<<  "How then can one go about deliberating on this subject unless oneknows
whose avidya is to be eliminated ? Surely one cannot do so byconsidering
adhyasa and knowledge as some external elements unconnected with the
inquirer."



Namaste, nobody is saying that adhyāsa is some
external element unconnected with the inquirer. This is not Sri Swamiji's
position
and I can see that from your paragraph above,you have not correctly grasped
Sri Swamiji's views.>>

Sorry. I did not say they were Swamiji's views. I was responding to Sri
Subhanu's observation << Such questions where the answers are valueless
are:-       What is the nature of avidyā? Is it positive or negative?-
  Whose is avidyā?-       What causes my confusion? >>. That is all.

Regards


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:01 PM, subhanu <subhanu at hotmail.com> wrote:

> HS Chandramouli wrote:
>
> "The whole point arises because Sri SSS is critical
>
> of mulavidya approach and advances the adhyasa
> approach"
>
>
>
> and
>
> "How then can one go about deliberating on this subject unless oneknows
> whose avidya is to be eliminated ? Surely one cannot do so byconsidering
> adhyasa and knowledge as some external elements unconnected with the
> inquirer."
>
>
>
> Namaste, nobody is saying that adhyāsa is some
> external element unconnected with the inquirer. This is not Sri Swamiji's
> position
> and I can see that from your paragraph above,you have not correctly
> grasped Sri Swamiji's views. Rather than do it on this list I would be
> happy to clarify
> further with you offline.
>
> I also agree with Sri Sadananda that the question is over-emphasised. I
> was simply responding to questions asked. Sri Sadananda has summarised well
> the view of the tradition,( for which I had also given the references from
> Shankara and Suresvara) that "ignorance belongs to the one who does not
> know that he is Brahman..". This has nothing to do with whether one
> believes in mūlāvidyā or not. I have also given the reference from
> Suresvara that even the notion that avidyā rests in Brahman is from the
> standpoint of ignorance only, so these statements can be taken independent
> of what one believes or doesn't believe are Sri Swamiji's views.As per your
> first statement above, it has been debated extensively on this list re
> mūlāvidyā and Sri Swamiji's views and allthe relevant postings can be found
> in the archives, so I see no need to further elaborate .Regards
>
> Subhanu
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