[Advaita-l] The 'Light of Consciousness'.

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 5:53 PM H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Pranams Sri Sadananda Ji,
>
> Reg << Having created the dream world, one can say 'He enters' as the
> subject in the dream creation and there other objects which constitute
> chara and achara - or sentient and insentient beings with their own bodies
> >>.
>
>  That is just the point. Shruti does not say ‘ He enters ‘ as the subject
> in the dream Creation.


I think it would be of benefit to consider the actual Taittiriya here:

 तत्सृष्ट्वा । तदेवानुप्राविशत् । तदनुप्रविश्य । सच्च त्यच्चाभवत् ।
निरुक्तं चानिरुक्तं च । निलयनं चानिलयनं च । विज्ञानं चाविज्ञानं च । सत्यं
चानृतं च सत्यमभवत् । यदिदं किञ्च । तत्सत्यमित्याचक्षते । तदप्येष श्लोको
भवति ॥ १ ॥

The 'entering' is taken up to both 'satyam' (vyavaharikam) and 'anrutam'
(praatibhasikam). Brahman alone 'became' both the vyavaharikam and
pratibhasikam.  That includes all bhrama experiences a person gets in the
world, including the dream experience. Seen this way, the triad of states
is an expression of Chaitanyam which the jiva really is.

warm regards
subrahmanian.v




> It applies only for the jagrat Creation. Vedanta
> also concedes that no sin is committed for any violation of vidhIs in the
> dream state. That is not said from the standpoint of the waking state. That
> definitely is a difference between the waking and dream states. I am not
> referring to whether the dreamer considers he is in the dream state or not
> while dreaming.
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