[Advaita-l] 'iti' in the vAcArambhaNa shruti

[H S Chandramouli]

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> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> << Is the word 'iti' in the vAcArambhaNa shruti ignored in shankara
> bhAShya? >>
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> << and use this mantra as a basis to argue for
> the mithyAtva of the world >>,
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>  I do not think Sri Bhagavatpada uses this mantra as a basis for the
> mithyatva of the world.  As Venkatraghavan Ji himself has pointed out
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> << The sixth chapter of ChAndogya starts with a question - येनाश्रुतं
> श्रुतं
> भवत्यमतं मतमविज्ञातं विज्ञातमिति - What is that thing, hearing which,
> everything unheard is heard, thinking which, everything unthought is
> thought, and knowing which, everything unknown is known? >>.
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> Sri Bhagavtpada  uses two sruti mantras to establish the mithyatva of the
> world .
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> << सदेव सोम्येदमग्र आसीदेकमेवाद्वितीयम् ।>> (rewritten to suit context
> सदेव .....इदम् ..आसीत् ।)
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> << sadeva somyedamagra AsIdekamevAdvitIyam >>  (sadeva ….. idam….AsIt)
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> ( Notice the absence of the term “iti” )
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> and
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> << वाचारम्भणं विकारो नामधेयं मृत्तिकेत्येव सत्यम् >>.
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> << vAchArambhaNaM vikAro nAmadheyaM mRRittiketyeva satyam >>
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> The second mantra is used to reduce the world with its entire variety to
> just one entity (termed kAraNam). For this purpose the word “iti” in the
> mantra is the key, and the world with its entire variety has the same level
> of satyatva or Reality as the kAraNa entity.
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> Having shown thus, against Bhashya for 6-2-2, in response to the Purva
> Pakshi, the following is stated
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> << रज्ज्वाद्यवयवेभ्यः सर्पादिसंस्थानवत् बुद्धिपरिकल्पितेभ्यः सदवयवेभ्यः
> विकारसंस्थानोपपत्तेः । ‘वाचारम्भणं विकारो नामधेयं मृत्तिकेत्येव सत्यम्’ (
> छा. उ. ६ । १ । ४)
> <http://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/display/bhashya/Chandogya?page=6&id=Ch_C06_S01_V04&hl=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%20%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%20%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D>
>  एवं सदेव सत्यम् — इति श्रुतेः । एकमेवाद्वितीयं परमार्थतः
> इदम्बुद्धिकालेऽपि ॥>>,
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> << rajjvAdyavayavebhyaH sarpAdisaMsthAnavat buddhiparikalpitebhyaH
> sadavayavebhyaH vikArasaMsthAnopapatteH | ‘vAchArambhaNaM vikAro nAmadheyaM
> mRRittiketyeva satyam’ (ChA. u. 6 | 1 | 4) evaM sadeva satyam — iti shruteH
> | ekamevAdvitIyaM paramArthataH idambuddhikAle.api || >>,
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>  Translation (Ganganath Jha) << Just as the parts of the serpent are
> assumed from the parts of the rope, so it would be possible for the shapes
> of the modifications to proceed from the assumed parts of the Being,
> because says the sruti “all the modification is only a name based on words
> ; and the only truth is that it is clay”, and thus the only truth is the
> Being ( Sri SSS points out that the sruti portion तत्सत्यम् tatsatyam
> from 6-8-7 should be recalled here). “One, without a second,” *as a
> matter of fact *, even at the time of cognition of “this” (when the
> one-ness ceases apparently)>>.
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> Thus mithyatva of the world is established by Sri Bhagavatpada using both
> the mantras.
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> Regards.
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