[Advaita-l] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: A question on PariNAma and vivarta

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:46 PM, H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Sri Subrahmanian Ji,
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> Reg  << Incidentally, I heard a Tamil exposition of the Bhashya of
> Chandogya by Sri Mani Dravid Sastrigal. At the end of that exposition he
> says that the effect is thought/seen/spoken to be different from the cause
> 'due to bhrānti.'>>,
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> I also listened to the talks by Sri Mani Dravid Shastrigal on Chandogya
> and I got the distinct understanding that he did not refer anywhere in the
> talks about vivarta !! I am not disputing either that seeing effect as
> different from cause is bhranti. But all instances of bhranti do not imply
> vivarta. Full moon seen as just one foot wide, sun going round the earth
> etc are some familiar cases of bhranti which do not imply vivarta. In fact
> practically all cases of sOpAdhika bhranti fall under this category.
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Namaste

The vivarta idea 'the object without undergoing any change being perceived
to be something else' is common in all kinds of bhrama-s. The word
'vivarta' need not be employed necessarily. Shankara has used both
rajju-sarpa, shukti-rajata, one moon appearing as two, perception of dirt
in space, sphaṭika appearing as variedly coloured, etc in his bhashyas to
denote bhrama.

regards
vs

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