[Advaita-l] when eyes are closed / opened

[V Subrahmanian]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> आँख खोलने पर •सर्वं खल्विदं ब्रह्म • है। when eyes are opened  • sarvaM
> khalvidaM brahma •
>
> >  But according to some when eyes are opened 'everything is mithyA not
> sarvaM khalvidaM brahma because this 'sarvaM' is mithyA...The witnessing
> consciousness is the ONLY satya everything else is mithyA because brahma
> satya, jaganmithyA jeevobrahmaiva nAparaH... And when eyes (mind) are
> closed through yOga sAdhana in the nirvikalpa samAdhi jnAni practically
> experiences that 'neha nAnAsti kiMchana' :-)
>

Says Sri SSS for the Bhāṣya vākya at the end of BGB 2.16:


heege kAraNavuLLa (vAgiruvadarinda) dehAdigaLu mattu dvandvagaLu emba
asattige iruvikeyilla. ...neenū (O Arjuna) tattvadarshigaLa dRuShTiyannu
AshrayisikonDu shokavannU mohavannU biTTu shItoShNagaLE muntAda
 dvandvagaLannu 'idu kAryavAddarimda bisilukurureya neerinante asatte
Agiddu husiyAgi tOruttide' endu manassinalli nishcayisikoNDu taDeduko endu
abhiprAya.

Thus, the message to Arjuna from the BGB 2.16 is: O Arjuna, you too,
following the vision of the Knowers, look upon the dualities such as the
body and the changing objects which all have a cause, as 'since this is
caused, it is non-existent like the water of the mirage and thus, is
falsely appearing (as sat).'

Hence, for Shankara and Sri SSS, the 'sarvam khalvidam brahma' means: all
this is only appearing falsely with Brahman as the substratum.
Those who can read Kannada see this page:

http://www.adhyatmaprakasha.org/php/bookreader/templates/book.php?type=kannada&book_id=100A&pagenum=0023#page/83/mode/1up

regards
subbu


>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
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