[Advaita-l] What is true Knowledge?

[H S Chandramouli]

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> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 6:26 PM, kuntimaddi sadananda via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote
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> << This Upanishad also is well quoted. Here the husband says to the wife
> – Wife does not love her husband, what she loves is the happiness that she
> gets when she is associated with her husband. To be fair, he also says –
> husband does not love his wife, what he loves is the happiness that she
> brings in. Similarly, nobody loves anything in the world other than the
> happiness that they get from the objects. aatmanastu kaamaya sarvam priyam
> bhavati. Love for an object is not for object sake, but for one’s own sake.>>
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> Namaste all.
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> I am initiating this discussion with a view to understand this part of BUB
> 2-4-5 better. The above cited view, in my understanding, does not convey
> adequately the essence of the Bhashya concerning the Upanishad portion
> cited therein itself namely
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> << aatmanastu kaamaya sarvam priyam bhavati >>.
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> It almost conveys the impression that the Upanishad highlights that all
> the humans are basically selfish. But the Bhashya opens with the following
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> << अमृतत्वसाधनं वैराग्यमुपदिदिक्षुः जायापतिपुत्रादिभ्यो विरागमुत्पादयति
> तत्सन्न्यासाय । >>
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> << amRRitatvasAdhanaM vairAgyamupadidikShuH jAyApatiputrAdibhyo
> virAgamutpAdayati tatsannyAsAya | >>.
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> Translation (Swami Madhavananda)  << With a view to teaching renunciation
> as a means to immortality, Yagnavalkya creates a distatste for the wife,
> husband, sons, etc., so that they may be given up >>
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> Perhaps the sentence (cited in the above post)
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> << Love for an object is not for object sake, but for one’s own sake >>
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> could be rephrased  as follows to convey the meaning better.
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> << Love for an object is not for object sake, but for the sake of The
> Self (in its aspect of Ananda)  >>.
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> (With apologies to Sri Sadananda Ji for suggesting a modification to his
> post. No offence meant. I felt it was an easier way to convey my
> understanding).
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> If the aim is attainment of The Self (in its aspect of Ananda), then all
> else which is not that should be renounced as they would be impediments in
> achieving the objective by diverting the attention.Husband,wife,son,wealth
> etc all come under the category of items which need to be renounced. This
> is what is elaborated in the Bhashya.
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> This is my understanding.  There could be different views on this. I
> thought this is a very important and difficult to understand part of the
> Upanishad and Bhashya, and a discussion bringing out different aspects of
> the same would be very useful.
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> Regards
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