[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: shankara speaking on behalf of or speaking to ??

Ravi Kiran ravikiranm108 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 03:01:25 EST 2017


This helps and clarifies the position, Chandramouli Ji

Thanks

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:58 PM, H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Namaste Sri Ravi Ji,
>
> Reg  << In such a case (B - just “happen” without “experience”), whether
> such a jnAni is knowing or knows(aware of) the happening of prarabdha
> karma phala ?
>
> what exactly you meant by " just happens without experience" ?
>
> For example: you may take a case of severe head-splitting headache as prarabdha
> karma phala>>,
>
> No. The jnani is unaware of it. As an illustration, let us say you are
> having a severe headache. All of a sudden, completely unawares, your son
> lands from abroad. You are so excited that you go about enjoying his
> company completely unaware of your headache. It is a common experience. In
> such a case, headache just continues to "happen", but you are not aware of
> it.
>
> Reg  <<If such a one is not knowing ( is what you meant by without
> experience of the happening) the prarabdha karma phala while it occurs,
> is it
> due to the continuous atmaikatva jnAna vRtti's taking place ( based on
> his will ) without mind entering into nirvikalpa samAdhi state ?
> ​ >>,
>
> Yes. But why use two terms " ​
> continuous atmaikatva jnAna vRtti's taking place
> ​ " ​
> ​ and  ​"
> without mind entering into nirvikalpa samAdhi state
> ​ ". Just the first will do. I normally avoid using the term ​"
> nirvikalpa samAdhi
> ​ " since it is too easily confused with the yogic state bearing the same
> name. ​
>





>
> ​Regards​
>
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