[Advaita-l] ghaTa bhAShya sAra

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:50 PM Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Therefore, on the basis of these five reasons, one must conclude that the
> effect pre-exists in the cause. The veda mantra therefore needs to be
> re-interpreted so that "there was nothing here" means "the cause and effect
> were both present, but in an unmanifest form".
>

Actually this is the way Shankara sees the Taittiriya Upanishad mantra :
asad vaa idamagra aasiit. tato vai sadajaayata.  It would look like the
Upanishad is teaching that 'there was non-existence before and existence
came from that.'  Shankara clarifies that asat means unmanifest cause and
sat is the manifest kaarya.

Thanks for the brilliant post, Venkat ji.

regards
subbu

>
> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> Good write up prabhuji, but is this the contextual meaning / elaboration
> of the veda mantra keeping the pUrva paxi position in mind and refutation
> of the same  or is this the siddhAnta (position) of the Advaita vedAnta
> irrespective of the pUrva paxi objections / doubts.  Just curious to know.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> Bhaskar
>
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