[Advaita-l] Time not Death

[V Subrahmanian]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Vēdānta Study Group via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> hariH Om.
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> */// Time is just a concept. It is like Maya. There is nothing called Maya
> ///*
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> Is there any pramana to suggest the above?


In the Mandukya karika 4.58 bhashya Shankara has said:

सा च माया न विद्यते । मायेत्यविद्यमानस्याख्येत्यभिप्रायः ॥ [That Maya does
not exist. The purport is that 'māyā' is the name for that which does not
exist.]


> As far as I know, shankarAchArya
> mentions avidyA (for the sake of our discussion let us akin it to the
> samaSTi mAyA) as having bhAva. It is a vastu enjoying existence, albeit a
> dependent one. Therefore I am not too sure how we're saying there is
> nothing called mAyA. As far as 'time' being just a concept, even this I
> would approach with some skepticism. Space is just as real (or unreal) as
> time is, in that they're both mithyA, but have a dependent vyAvahAra
> reality.
>
> If time were just a concept, it would not be influenced by anything, which
> we know to be untrue. But that aside, I'm we have shAstra to indicate that
> mAyA is an existing principle, as are dEsha-kAlA
>

Maya, avidya, space, time, etc. are admitted provisionally only to account
for samsara and the method for release from samsara. From the absolute
point of view these concepts have no place in Vedanta.

regards
vs

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> Namaste,
> Prashant
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