[Advaita-l] Fwd: Difficulty with Akhandakara Vrtti

Ravi Kiran ravikiranm108 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 22:06:55 CDT 2015


One way to answer this is:

The I (limited) who is seeking, will have the knowledge of the real nature
(svarupa) of "I" as the false notions of identifying "I" with the limited
person ( jIva) is removed..

Thanks

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Durga Janaswamy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Same question, a bit expanded:
>
> In drustanta (द्रष्टांत), the tenth man realizes that  "I am the tenth"
> who is a limited person (परिछिन्न).
> In draastanta (द्राष्टांत), do I realize that I am Brahman, (who is
> अपरिछिन्न)?  If not, how the realization happens in this context?
>
> Thank you and regards
> -- durga prasad
>
> ----------------------------------------
> > To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> > Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:12:18 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Fwd: Difficulty with Akhandakara Vrtti
> > From: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> >
> > In drustanta (द्रष्टांत), the tenth man realizes that  "I am the
> tenth".    In draastanta (द्राष्टांत), do I realize that I am Brahman?
> > If not, how the realization happens in this context?
> >
> >
> > Thank you and regards
> > -- durga prasad
> >
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> >> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:19:48 +0530
> >> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> >> Subject: [Advaita-l] Fwd: Difficulty with Akhandakara Vrtti
> >> From: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> >>
> >> In the laukika example, "This is that Devadatta", the recognition of
> >> devadatta, once it has occurred, there is no "abiding" (constant)
> feeling
> >> "this is that devadatta", just as the man who is told "you are the
> tenth",
> >> will not continue to "realize" that he is the tenth person, after he has
> >> realized just once, with the help of a passer-by (pramANa). After his
> >> earlier agony of missing a person is destroyed by the realization, "I am
> >> the tenth", the "realization" that he is the tenth also becomes
> irrelevant.
> >> Why? There was no missing person, to begin with, and so the statement
> "you
> >> are the tenth" was not really required! I think this is what the
> Swamiji is
> >> alluding to when he says the BrahmajnAna from the upanishad pramANa is a
> >> vRtti jnAna, as opposed to a svarUpajnAna. The brahmajnAna is only
> required
> >> to put an end to avidyA, and not beyond that.
> >>
> >> Anand
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