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

[H S Chandramouli]

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> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> << Strangely, we
> have reached the other end of the spectrum on this thread where the
> जीवेश्वरैक्यवाक्य has itself become बाधसामानाधिकरण्यम् !  >>.
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> What has been presented  in support of considering  बाधसामानाधिकरण्यम्
> (bAdhasAmAnAdhikaraNyam)  for interpreting अहं  ब्रह्मास्मि (ahaM
> brahmAsmi) are not just the individual understanding of members, but
> statements by Swami Sureshvaracharya (Naishkarmya Siddhi), Swami Vasudeva
> Brahmendra Saraswati (Vichara Sagara
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>  etc.
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> In this regard, it was also mentioned by Praveen Ji  that
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> << If we make this ऐक्यवाक्य also as बाधसामानाधिकरण्यम् then
> मुक्तिः is an impossibility since neither can ब्रह्म be done बाध of, nor
> अहम्। >>.
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> What is sought to be negated (bAdha) in “aham” is not the jIva svarUpa
> itself ( which is nothing but Brahman ). What is sought to be negated
> (bAdha) is the jIva which is cognized as karta/bhOkta/jnAta/sukhi/dukhi
> etc. Such a negation automatically, without any further effort for
> establishing Aikya, results in जीवेश्वरैक्य (jIveshvaraikya)
> (Realization) as Brahman is Self-Revealing. In this context, the following
> quote from BSB 1-3-19 is relevant.
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> <<तस्मात्यदविद्याप्रत्युपस्थापितमपारमार्थिकं जैवं रूपं
> कर्तृत्वभोक्तृत्वरागद्वेषादिदोषकलुषितमनेकानर्थयोगि, तद्विलयनेन
> तद्विपरीतमपहतपाप्मत्वादिगुणकं पारमेश्वरं स्वरूपं विद्यया प्रतिपद्यते,
> सर्पादिविलयनेनेव रज्ज्वादीन् ।  >>
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> <<  . tasmAt yadavidyApratyupasthApitamapAramArthikaM jaivaM rUpaM
> kartRRitvabhoktRRitvarAgadveShAdidoShakaluShitamanekAnarthayogi,
> tadvilayanena tadviparItamapahatapApmatvAdiguNakaM pArameshvaraM svarUpaM
> vidyayA pratipadyate, sarpAdivilayaneneva rajjvAdIn | >>
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> Translation by Swami Gambhirananda  << Therefore ( the correct
> interpretation is this ) ; After the unreal aspect of the individual being,
> conjured up by ignorance etc., tainted by many such defects as agentship,
> experienceship, love, hatred, etc., and subject to many evils, has been
> eliminated, the opposite aspect, namely the reality that is the supreme
> lord, possessed of the charecteristics of freedom from sin and so on,
> becomes revealed, just as the rope etc. are revealed after eliminating the
> snake etc, (superimposed on them through error) >>.
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> Regards
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