[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** RE: pariNAma and vivarta

[Durga Janaswamy]

thank you and regards
-- durga prasad

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> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 10:49:27 +0530 
> Subject: Re: ***UNCHECKED*** [Advaita-l] pariNAma and vivarta 
> From: v.subrahmanian at gmail.com 
> To: janaswamy2001 at hotmail.com; advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org 
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> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Durga Janaswamy via Advaita-l  
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org<mailto:advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>>  
> wrote: 
> Hari Om, 
> Namaste. 
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> परिणाम and विवर्त 
> pariNAma and vivarta 
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> I heard one sloka 
> अतात्त्विको अन्यथा भाव  विवर्त उदिरित 
> तात्त्विको अन्यथा भाव परिणाम 
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> atAttviko anyathA bhAva  vivarta udirita 
> tAttviko anyathA bhAva pariNAma 
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> I could not grasp the words accurately. Please give me the correct sloka. 
> Please also explain the meaning of the sloka as per Advaita Vendata. 
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> The above statement means: 
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> 'Vivarta' is that 'change', 'becoming something else', which is unreal.  
>   [The example of a rope that is wrongly seen / grasped as a snake] 
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> Pariṇāma is that change, becoming something else, which is real. [The  
> analogy of milk becoming something else, curd.] 
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> In the first case the rope does not undergo any change really; it is  
> only wrongly seen to be a snake.  Yet, from the point of view of error,  
> it is spoken of as having undergone a change, by courtesy. 
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> It is only in the second case there is a real change in the original  
> object.  It does undergo a true transformation which leaves it  
> completely a different object. 
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> As per Vedanta, Brahman is wrongly seen as the world/jiva and hence  
> there is no transformation of Brahman; it is only an erroneous  
> perception. Hence, a vivarta. 
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> For the Sānkhyas, the mūlaprakṛti transforms into the world through a  
> process. 
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> The syntactical correctness of the statement provided cannot be  
> verified as the source of the same is not known. 
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> regards 
> vs 
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> Thank you and regards 
> -- durga prasad 
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