[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Ishvara-authored Srishti avidyākrta - Says Shankara

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Dear Subbuji,


During Adi Shankara's time there were the Buddhist schools as well as the Jaina schools, whose the belief has been that there is no personal God (or no separate God) who created the world, in the sense that if there is a creator God, where did He get material for creation. This is, in essence, also the indirect implication of the Advaita that in the ultimate sense, there is no difference between the creator and  the creation and there is only the Brahman and no separate creation. Even when the Upanshads talk about creation, we can see that the Mundaka upanishad  tells us that the Brahman creates in a  way a spider creates the web and takes back the web unto itself (i.e., withdraws the web back into itself). This analogy is very apt,  as I remember reading years ago an article in the "Reader's Digest", mentioning  that there is indeed a kind of spider, which withdraws the web into itself back. Thus no upanishad, whether  Mudgala or Brihadaranyaka  or any other upanishad,  contradicts what the Mundaka says. The Original Bhagavad Gita and the karika of Gaudapadacharya on Mandukya,  too are saying the same in the Ajativada verse. 

Regards,
Sunil K.B.




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On Mon, 5/23/16, v.subrahmanian at gmail.com [advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Subject: [advaitin] Re: Ishvara-authored Srishti avidyākrta - Says Shankara
 To: advaitin at yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, May 23, 2016, 4:51 AM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       Dear Sri Kalyan ji,
 I request you to read the article
 that can be accessed here:
 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/advaitin/conversations/messages/47619
 
 Quite
 ironically, Shankara has cited two Kārikās of Gaudapada in
 his Brahma sutra bhashya, to show that creation is not real
 and that the teaching of creation in the shruti is aimed at
 driving home the advaitic nature of Brahman and not to give
 an impression that a real creation took place.
 Also, contrarily, Shankara has cited
 a verse of Veda Vyasa (who alone is Badarayana) in the
 Gaudapada Karika bhashya to show the unreality of the
 objective world.  
 The above only proves that Shankara
 is following Veda Vyasa and Gaudapada everywhere to teach
 that creation is not real.
 regardssubbu
   
 
 
 
 
 
     
      
 
     
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