[Advaita-l] Question about Avaccheda vada

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Aditya Kumar <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> In the context of avaccheda vada, how is mathakasha any different from
> ghatakasha as both are upadhis? We can simply say jiva is ghatakasha and
> ishwara is brihadghatakasha. But that would mean ishwara too has avidya.
>

No, this would not mean Ishwara has avidya. All the avaccheda-s are due to
Maya.  This maya is further seen as shuddha sattva (Ishvara) and malina
sattva (jiva).

>
> Thanks for panchadashi reference but Vidyaranya is using another version
> of reflection theory and not delimitation theory.
>

Yes. I had realized that even when I stated that reference.

regards

>
> Any reference from Shankara/Gaudapada or other 9th century Advaitins like
> Vachaspati? Thanks
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 8/2/18, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Question about Avaccheda vada
>  To: "Aditya Kumar" <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com>, "A discussion group for
> Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>  Date: Thursday, 8 February, 2018, 6:33 PM
>
>
>
>  On Thu,
>  Feb 8, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Aditya Kumar via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>  wrote:
>  If
>  ghatakasha is jiva and mahakasha is brahman, what or where
>  is Ishwara in the equation?
>
>
>  You can
>  have maThAkAsha, the space limited by a mansion.  This is
>  an indicative, one can think of any other huge enclosure to
>  fit 'Ishvara' in.
>  Swami Vidyaranya in the Panchadashi
>  6th Chapter gives a detailed method where Ishwara is also
>  accorded a place.  See the initial few verses.  A bit
>  complicated, though.
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