[Advaita-l] A question on PariNAma and vivarta

H S Chandramouli hschandramouli at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 05:45:17 EST 2017


A correction please.



For  मृदित्येव  सत्यम् (mRRidityeva  satyam )  please read  मृत्तिकेत्येव
सत्यम् (mRRittiketyeva satyam ).



Regret the error



Regards

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:38 PM, H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namste Sri Subrahmanian Ji,
>
>
>
> This is reg your observation  << The point to be noted in respect of mrt
> example is: the pinda is admitted
> to be already a kārya of mrt. And the vijnana of the pinda as non-different
> from its kārana mrt. is what is taught as resulting in the knowledge of all
> other karyas that will emerge from the pinda which itself is a karya of
> mrt. That is why he says  mrido'nyabuddhi. Even the pinda is realized to be
> mrdeva just as sarpa is realized to be rajjureva.>>,
>
>
>
> My understanding concerning the last sentence  * Even the pinda is
> realized to be
> mrdeva just as sarpa is realized to be rajjureva * is different. In my
> understanding of the bhashya, the correct rendering in respect of pinda
> should be  मृदित्येव  सत्यम् (mRRidityeva  satyam ) and not  मृदेव सत्यम्
> (mRRideva satyam ). In respect of rope-serpent, रज्जुरेव सत्यम्
> (rajjureva satyam ) is correct. That is why transformation from मृत्पिणड(mRRitpiNaDa
> ) to  मृद्घट (mRRidghaTa ) is parinama while that from rope to
> rope-serpent is vivarta.
>
>
>
> Regards
>


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