[Advaita-l] Swami Nischalananda Saraswathi replies to ISKCON's claims of Advaita being a Mayavadi

[Srinath Vedagarbha]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:45 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Srinath ji,
>
> What you have said below is forgetting that Advaita holds that shakti as
> mithya; not having an existence of its own. So, Brahman is always
> nirvishesha.  The Shakti is assumed by Vedanta solely for the purpose of
> explaining the perceived duality, samsara, bandha, moksha.  It is a case of
> 'adhyaropa' by the shaastra.  Its apavada is also done by the shastra
> itself.  So, when it is said 'shakti sahita' , that shakti is superimposed
> by the shastra on Brahman.
>

The term 'sahita' is same meaning as 'superimposed' ; is beyond anybody'
comprehension!  No sane person will say 'sarpa-sahita rajju' instead of
'sarpArOpita-rajju' for snake over rope illusion.





> When it is said 'mayaa adhyakshena prakriti suuyate...', the
> 'adhyakshatva' is passive presence of Brahman as mere consciousness and no
> active role is admitted in advaita. 'svabhaavastu pravartate.'   Brahman is
> incapable of doing anything for the Upanishad teaches it has no prana, no
> manas, no body, etc. It is solely dependent on that prakriti for creation,
> etc. All the ananta kalyana gunas assumed in Brahman are a contribution of
> that shakti.  This can be inferred from the fact that not a single of that
> ananta gunas is unrelated to either jagat or jiva. Thus, all the ananta
> gunas in Brahman are jagat-jiva dependent and not a single guna can be
> shown exclusively of Brahman.
>
>  Amritabindu Upanishad:
>
>  न निरोधो न चोत्पत्तिर्न बद्धो न च साधकः ।
>  न मुमुक्षुर्न वै मुक्त इत्येषा परमार्थता ॥॥   cited by Gaudapada in the
> Mandukya Karika.
>
> There is no creation, no dissolution, none bound, no aspirant, none
> liberated. This is the absolute truth.
>
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Such statement makes janmAdhyassya sUtra invalid and which makes own
school's commentator Shankra (on such sUtra) an ignorant!
No wonder  Gaudapada did not care to write bhAshya on sUtra!

/sv