[Advaita-l] Time not Death

[H S Chandramouli]

Maya is anirvachaniya. It is not correct to state that it does not exist
nor is it correct to say that it is only a concept. It is vyAvahArika
satya. Same applies to kAla or Time. Upanishads clearly mention "creation"
of Time.

Regards

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.
>
> */// Time is just a concept. It is like Maya. There is nothing called Maya
> ///*
>
> Is there any pramana to suggest the above? 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
>
> Namaste,
> Prashant
>
>
> On 19 June 2017 at 02:20, Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, R Krishnamoorthy via Advaita-l wrote:
> >
> > Time is just a concept. It is like Maya. There is nothing called Maya. We
> >> give the name Maya to things which we are not able to fully understand
> or
> >> is beyond our logic. Time also does not exist. It is the name given to
> the
> >> duration that elapses between any two events which is measurable and
> fully
> >> recognisable. In the the Lord says I am Time to indicate He is eternal
> >> that
> >> is the duration of His presence is lmmeasurable. And All beings or non
> >> beings
> >> have limited duration between their birth to their death or end.
> >>
> >
> > This is true.  But it isn't it strange that people are afraid of death
> but
> > not afraid of time?  Shankaracharya brings this out in the mohamudgara
> > stotra in which he admonishes an old man who is studying to vyakarana to
> > "bhaje govindam".
> >
> > This is another example of bad interpretations and translations.  Some
> > make it out to be some sort of tirade against grammar which is ridiculous
> > to anyone who knows the position vyakarana plays in Sanskrit scholarship.
> > (In fact according to thinkers like Bhartrahari, it is itself a form of
> > Vedantic sadhana.)  No; what the acharya is saying is that why would you
> > wait until your time has almost run out to begin sadhana?  The right time
> > is now.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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