[Advaita-l] Accounting for Brahman appearing as the world

[V Subrahmanian]

On 8 Sep 2017 22:34, "Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

Namaste Venkateshji,

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Joke can be turned back to you. If everything like a Jada Vastu Pot is
> Brahman for you why not the Bhranta Jeeva also. That Bhranta Jeeva also is
> Brahman only because in this Universe there is nothing but Brahman only.
> Brahman is Jada, He is Chetana Vastu, Jnani and Bhranta also. Therefore
let
> Bhranta Jeeva Brahman create everything and become even more Bhranta. But
> he is still Brahman only.
>

​Thanks for highlighting an important point​. This is unfortunately lost on
many who take the literal interpretation of sarvaM brahma; that is without
bAdhasAmAnAdhikaraNyam!



This is exactly seen in BGB 4.24 where Shankara is clearly articulating the
'bādhāyām sāmānādhikaraṇyam':

ब्रह्मार्पणं ब्रह्म हविर्ब्रह्माग्नौ ब्रह्मणा हुतम् ।
ब्रह्मैव तेन गन्तव्यं ब्रह्मकर्मसमाधिना ॥ २४ ॥
भाष्यम्
<http://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/display/bhashya/Gita?page=4&id=BG_C04_V24_B01&hlBhashya=%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%82#bhashya-BG_C04_V24>

ब्रह्म अर्पणं येन करणेन ब्रह्मवित् हविः अग्नौ अर्पयति तत् ब्रह्मैव इति
पश्यति, तस्य आत्मव्यतिरेकेण अभावं पश्यति, यथा शुक्तिकायां रजताभावं पश्यति ;
तदुच्यते ब्रह्मैव अर्पणमिति, यथा यद्रजतं तत् शुक्तिकैवेति  |

Here Shankara no doubt equates the 'silver' with the shell and thus the
world with Brahman. But he does that only 'after' negating the world,
'abhāvam paśyati.'
subbu