[Advaita-l] Shankara and DrishTi-SrishTi vAda

[Venkatesh Murthy (वेङ्कटेशः सीतारामार्यपुत्रः)]

 Namaste
 On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l
<advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> I don’t think whenever shankara endorses the concept of 'eka jeeva' he is pointing his finger on 'jeeva', it is on the other hand the concept of 'eka jeeva' vaada holds good 'eka Chaitanya which is pAramArthically true as per Advaita.  From the empirical stand point we do believe and behave as if there are actually multiple jeeva-s.  samashti antaHkaraNa, vyashti antaHkaraNa comes into picture whenever there is a talk about eka jeeva and nAnA jeeva.  And most importantly when it comes to creation, the 'eka jeeva' vAda does not pertain the jeeva's avidyA kalpita jagat.  The srushti has been explained as Ishwara hetuka, shankara nowhere says this jagat and Ishwara both a jeeva's avidyA kalpita.  We don’t have to bring the ArambhaNAdhikaraNAM to prove that Ishwara is kevala vyAvahArika satya in this context of jeeva's imagination / illusion.
>
Kindly read the Ramana Maharshi saying 534

Let highly mature and courageous aspirants who

have a bright and sharp intellect, firmly accept that

soul [jiva] is only one [eka] and thereby be established

deep in the heart [by enquiring ‘Who am I, that

one jiva?’]. It is only to suit immature minds that

scriptures generally say that souls [jivas] are many

[nana].

Ramana Maharshi's philosophy is same as Adi Sankara's philosophy.
There is no difference. there is only one Jeeva and that Jeeva has
created Ishwara and the Universe in his imagination. Yes this Jeeva is
the creator of God. He has also created other Jeevas but they are not
real. They are also imagined like God and Universe. He has also
imagined Guru and Scriptures. That imagined Guru will give him
instruction of imagined Scriptures and he will get liberated in his
imagination
only. There is nothing outside that Jeeva.




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> bhaskar
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> Namaste
>
> It is very simple. Adi Sankara has not rejected Eka Jeeva Vaada in the Prasthana Traya Bhashya. Therefore if you accept Eka Jeeva Vaada of only one Jeeva existing in the Universe you can see DSV is also accepted. Because that one Jeeva has imagined everything in the Universe. If you say Ishwara has created the Universe even that Ishwara is imagined by that Jeeva only. The whole Universe is existing because of that Jeeva's imagination.
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was asked about the apparent refutation of DrishTi-SrishTi vAda in
>> ShankarAchArya's prasthAna traya bhAshya. Please find below a link to
>> a paper that discusses this.
>>
>> http://www.mediafire.com/download/4q9e6s9a99k9rye/Shankaracharya_and_D
>> rishti_Srishti_Vada_4-May-2016.pdf
>>
>> Regards,
>> Venkatraghavan
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