[Advaita-l] Prajnaghana brahma

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 2:10 AM, michael via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

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> Dear Sri Vedavids,
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> -prajnanam brahma/Brahman is consciousness
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> -prajnaghana brahma/Brahman is a mass of consciousness
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> The first is a Mahavakya from AitareyaU 3.1.3
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> Can anyone tell me where prajnaghana brahma appears?
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It appears in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:   ‘ अनन्तरोऽबाह्यः कृत्स्नः
प्रज्ञानघन एव’ (बृ. उ. ४ । ५ । १३)    .....It is prajnanaghana
alone...4.5.13.  Shankara has cited this about a dozen times across his
bhashyas. Both the terms mean the same:  mass of pure consciousness.

prajnanaghana appearing in the mandukya context is slightly different: it
is a mass of undifferentiated consciousness, knowledge of so many things
the person possesses, not differentiated in the sleep state, but
manifesting as differentiated in the waking and dream states.

regards
subbu

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> and what, if anything, is the difference between the two?
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> much appreciate, mcc
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