[Advaita-l] A fine summary of Advaita doctrine

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Wed Mar 15 06:49:46 EDT 2017


On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:03 PM, H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
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> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:45 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>> << In all bhrama-s the two adhyāsa-s are admitted >>,
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>> And  << That is why in the jivanmukti state, the artha, the world,
>> continues to appear but the mithyātva nishchaya is also present >>,
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>> The two appear to be contradictory. As per the above itself, arthAdhyAsa
>> continues for a jnani while jnAnAdhyAsa is absent.
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It is actually bādhitasya arthasya anuvṛttiḥ and hence no contradiction.

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>> Reg  << Whereas in the kārya adhyāsa, which is vyāvahārika, ajnātasattā
>> is admitted,>>,
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>> With reference to  ajnātasattā, both kArya (pot/ornament) and kArana
>> (clay/gold) are adhyAsa. Where kArana (clay/gold ) is admitted to be satya
>> (vyAvahArika satya), there kArya (pot/ornament) is also admitted to be
>> satya (vyAvahArika satya) as in << mruttiketyeva satyam >>.  There is no
>> case where kArana (clay/gold) is admitted to be satya while kArya
>> (pot/ornament) is adhyAsa. That is the point being made.
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> Here, the context of the analogy is that the taking the kārya to be real.
This is what is stated to be wrong and the correction given out: the cause
alone is real and the effect unreal.

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