[Advaita-l] Question about Avaccheda vada

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 02:03:10 EST 2018


On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Aditya Kumar <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification. I request some pointers regarding : (1)
> Mention of mathakasha or its equivalent and (2) Ishwaras maya being shuddha
> sattva and jivas is malina sattva.
>

No.2 is clearly mentioned in the Panchadashi and several other
commentaries.

>
> Will be grateful for any help in this regard. And another question is that
> even if the pot breaks, the mansion-space remains as it is. How to resolve
> this?
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> On Fri, 9/2/18, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Question about Avaccheda vada
>  To: "Aditya Kumar" <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com>
>  Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
> vedanta.org>
>  Date: Friday, 9 February, 2018, 5:41 AM
>
>
>
>  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
>
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