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

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Krishnamoorthy ji,


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 6:49 PM, R Krishnamoorthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>
> This vaada is like pure mathematics. Abstract in toto.


Truth be told, its the only vAda that works purely off the dream
experiences, which everyone has. And experiences are *not* abstract.


> Very difficult to
> visualise or understand.


True, since people have trouble analyzing the dream and accepting the fact
so: "I was completely deluded during the dream", due to the overwhelming
waking world experiences, which are exactly the same.


> It is purely academic in content.


That may be said about any vAda or prakriyA, since one has to *use* it to
know whether or not it works.


> Also if Brahman
> is the jiiva where is the question of jiiva getting to know He himself is
> Brahman?


If jIva is not brahman by nature, mokSha by j~nAna will become impossible!


> How ignorance veils Brahman,?


The same way that it does in any other vAda, namely avidyA!


> I think this vaada is not logical.
>

The conclusion is far from the fact. Sorry, but how you start off by saying
"difficult to understand" and end up with "not logical" is itself beyond
logic.

gurupAdukAbhyAm,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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