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

[Venkatraghavan S]

Sri Bhaskar,
This is close to reopening the mUlAvidyA vs. HH SSS debate. Do you want to
do that?

Regards,
Venkatraghavan
On 10 May 2016 10:38 a.m., "Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> praNAms Sri Ananda Hudli prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> 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).
>
> >  prabhuji don’t you see the contradiction here in the above statement??
> How can a 'nitya shuddha' brahman can have the association with ajnAna??
> If the ajnAna is associated with him prior to creation, how can brahman's
> 'nitya shuddha mukta svabhAva be justified??  Again I think these
> declarations are because of 'bad practice' of using the mAya and avidyA
> alternatively without any discretion.  avidyAsaMyuktaM avyaktaM shankara
> says somewhere if avidyA  is avyaktaM in the kAraNa  brahman and since
> brahman is the ekamevAdviteeyaM before srushti, avidyA should have the par
> status with brahman.  That is no need to say an 'anishTa' considering the
> nitya shuddhatva of para brahman.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
>
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