[Advaita-l] Question about Avaccheda vada

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste

On 12 Feb 2018 21:30, "Srinath Vedagarbha via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:




But do not forget such potency is not real per se as narrated within AV,
but said to be a kalpana/apavAda by shaastras



> In this state there is jiva-ishwara, but on release there is no
> jiva-ishwara only brahman.


Since potency of Ishwara is said to be kaalpanika only, there is no
question of so called "release" in real sense at all.


Yes, this is correct. Moksha as an event is not accepted as real in
advaita. However this does not invalidate moksha as not real. As there is
no other entity to limit Brahman, moksha is Brahman's nature.

In the sUtrabhAShya 1.1.4, ShankarAchArya writes -

अतोऽविद्याकल्पितसंसारित्वनिवर्तनेन
नित्यमुक्तात्मस्वरूपसमर्पणान्न मोक्षस्यानित्यत्वदोषः । यस्य
तूत्पाद्यो मोक्षः, तस्य मानसं वाचिकं कायिकं वा कार्यमपेक्षत इति युक्तम् ।
तथा विकार्यत्वे च । तयोः पक्षयोर्मोक्षस्य ध्रुवमनित्यत्वम् ।
...ब्रह्मभावश्च मोक्षः ।

Regards,
Venkatraghavan