[Advaita-l] Question on adhyaasa

[H S Chandramouli]

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> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 3:19 PM Sean Geiger via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> << Here's another question. Existence, Knowledge, Bliss are not
> attributes of
> Atman, but its svarupa. How could there be a transfer of attributes of
> Atman to anatman if there is no attribute of the former? If it be said that
> the svarupa of Atman is transferred to anatman then it could mean the
> svarupa is already known through this "adhyasa"! Nobody needs to do any
> sadhana to realize the svarupa? >>,
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> Namaste.
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> Anatman derives its attributes of existence, knowability (knowledge ),
> capacity to know  etc from the Atman by its mere proximity to it. This is
> how “ transfer “ of attributes from atman to anatman is to be understood.
> The “ transfer “ is not an act on the part of atman. Illustration is that
> of rope-serpent. The rope-serpent derives its existence and knowability
> from the rope. Rope has no active role to play in such “ transfer “ of
> attributes. But the anatma is not aware of where it got its attributes
> from. It needs sadhana to know it.
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> Regards
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