[Advaita-l] Shankara and DrishTi-SrishTi vAda - eka jeeva vaada

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Chandramouliji,

I don't know the answer to your bhAshya question, will leave it for other
members more well informed than me to comment.

Regarding Sri Anand ji's quote, I didn't interpret Hiranyagarbha, Rudra,
Vishnu etc to mean Ishvara here (they may well mean that in other
contexts), because Sri Appayya Dikshitar later uses Ishvara directly to
mean the jIva himself - "Ishvara .api san bhrAnto bhavati jAgare" - despite
*being Ishvara*, he is deluded in the waking state. So, whereas the
trimurti are described as his creations, Ishvara is his nature. So prAjna
is being talked about here in my opinion, but I'm open to being corrected.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan
On 10 May 2016 7:07 a.m., "H S Chandramouli" <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Namaste Sri Venkatraghavan Ji,
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>>> My observation that jiva creates prAjna also stems from the citation by
>>> Sri Anand Ji copied here
>>>
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>>>
>>> << However, the prominent among
>>> them is the one put forth by PrakAshAnanda in his
>>> vedAntasiddhAntamuktAvalI. According to this view, the
>>> nityashuddhamuktasvabhAva Brahman, in association with ajnAna, attains
>>> the
>>> state of jIva (ajnAnamAshritya jIvabhAvaM labdhvA), and creates
>>> (imagines)
>>> the bodies of Gods, animals, humans, etc. and also creates the entire
>>> universe with the fourteen worlds (brahmANDAdicaturdahsabhuvanaM
>>> sRShTvA).
>>> Among those bodies, one is a God, one a human, one Hiranyagarbha the
>>> Creator of all (teShu teShu deheShu kashcit devaH kashcit manuShyaH
>>> kashcit
>>> hiraNyagarbhaH sarveShAM sraShTA). One is Vishnu the Protector and one is
>>> Rudra the Destroyer of all during Pralaya (kashcit VishNuH pAlakaH
>>> kashcit
>>> anyaH sarvasaMhArakartA rudraH pralaye).>>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Also  << Thus, the jIva, although Ishvara (Brahman) himself
>>> becomes deluded in the waking state (Ishvaro .api san bhrAnto bhavati
>>> jAgare).>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have no doubt added the word prAjna on my own since equivalent terms
>>> God, Hiranyagarbha, Vishnu,Rudra, Iswara  are all covered in the above
>>> quote. There is no other source I have relied upon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Including this definition, we have three versions for the eka-jIva-vAda in
>>> this thread. I only wanted to know if any or all of these are consistent
>>> with the Bhashya or not  It was just for my own information only. Not with
>>> any view to enter into a debate. If I can find an answer here , fine.
>>> Otherwise no problem. Please ignore the question
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pranams and Regards
>>>
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