[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Why only jagat is mithya and jeeva is brahman !!??

Venkatraghavan S agnimile at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 03:37:12 CDT 2016


Namaste Sri Chandramouli ji,

Ok sure. As I said, I view examples as a teaching/learning tool, a
prakriya. If you insist the example needs to apply to only what you have
outlined below, that is fine by me.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan
On 2 Apr 2016 9:11 a.m., "H S Chandramouli" <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sri Venkatraghavan Ji,
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> Pranams.
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> Reg  << The examples of pot/clay or ornament/gold may not exactly apply
> to the world/Brahman in all respects, but that is the nature of all
> examples I suppose. Their utility is limited to justifying something
> particular through one aspect of the drishtAnta.>>,
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> The answer is a very definite NO. The pot/clay or ornament/gold
> illustration applies ONLY to the modifications in sama satta (समसत्ता)
> context for cause/effect (कारण कार्य). It is not applicable in vishama
> satta(विषमसत्ता) context for cause/effect. The illustrations are
> applicable for all worldly modifications, all the way from mAyA to any
> other vyavaharika vastu. They are not applicable directly for world( any
> vastu)/Brahman relationship. But it is permissible to apply the vivarta
> illustration for Brahman/any other vastu at vyavaharika level (say gold or
> clay) and apply the pariNAma illustration for subsequent modifications of
> gold/clay ( say ornament/pot)  to arrive at the ultimate vivarta
> relationship between Brahman/ornament or pot directly.
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> Pranams and Regards
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