[Advaita-l] Question on adhyaasa

[Venkatraghavan S]

The same thing which pervades silence, pervades discussion also. Perhaps
the discerning one should focus their attention on that reality and cast
aside everything else.

Kind regards,
Venkatraghavan

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, 07:49 sreenivasa murthy <narayana145 at yahoo.co.in wrote:

> Dear participants in this thread,
>
>    Please permit me to draw your kind attention to
> the following teachings of Upanishad and Sri Shankara :
>
> (1) AtmatO idagam sarvam || Chandogya 7-26-1
> (2) AtmaivEdagaM sarvam || Chandogya  7-25-2
> (3) Sri Shankara  writes in his commemtary to
>      Brahmasutra 3-2-19 thus :
>      AtmA sarvagatatvAt , sarvAnanyatvAcca ||
> (4)Sri Shankara writes in his commenrart to mantra
>      2-1-19 of Bruhadarnyaka upanishad thus:
>      AtmavyatirEkENa vastvantarABAvAt ||
> In the light of the above teachings,
> under what category the explanations using all the technical terms,
>  furnished in the latest postings, come
>  under the category of intellectual speculation or
>  under the category of actuality?
>
> With respectful namaskars,
> Sreenivasa Murthy
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, 6 December, 2018, 12:18:38 PM IST, Venkatraghavan S via
> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>
> Namaste Sadaji,
> Yes, it is a cognitive process.
>
> First one sees existence of the world. Then existence and the world.
> Accompanying this is the realisation that if existence and the world are
> separate, the world has no existence. Then all that remains is existence
> - पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते.
>
> This is the akhandAkAra vritti that removes mUlAvidya.
>
> Regards
> Venkatraghavan
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, 02:41 kuntimaddi sadananda <kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com
> wrote:
>
> > Venkatraghavanji - PraNAms
> >
> >  Thanks for the post.
> >
> >  Just for clarification.
> >
> >  While the existence forms adhishTaanam for the world and thus they are
> > together the removal of ignorance, therefore. involves cognitively
> > recognizing the pure existence without attributes while seeing the world.
> > It is like recognizing the sunlight while looking at the moon and its
> > light. Without the presence of the moon, the sunlight cannot be
> recognized.
> >
> >  In addition, this recognition or realization can only be done with the
> > mind enlivened by chidaabhaasa cognitively using vRitti jnaanam although
> > there is no phala vyaapti since it is aparoxa jnanaam.
> >
> >  Hari Om!
> > Sadananda
> > ---------------------------------
> >
> >  On Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 11:03:02 PM GMT+5:30, Venkatraghavan S
> > via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >  Therefore, the cognition that is capable of removing that
> >
> > ignorance (and thus samsAra) can only have brahman as its object, and not
> >
> > ignorance or its products. Any cognition of the existence of the world
> has
> >
> > both existence and the world (ie it has both brahman and the world, a
> >
> > product of ignorance) as its object, and therefore, such a cognition
> cannot
> >
> > remove the ignorance which is the cause of samsAra.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Venkatraghavan
> >
> > LP
>
> >
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