[Advaita-l] Taattvika Abheda and vyavaharika bheda in Dvaita and Advaita

[V Subrahmanian]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:57 PM, Srinath Vedagarbha <svedagarbha at gmail.com>
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> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:31 AM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
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>> Brahman has to depend on prakriti for doing anything.  Madhva has called
>> it Bhaaryaa in the BGB.
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> Little explanation is needed here. By reading Madhva's BSB, one may think
> even Brhamn is "depends" on prakriti. Such thinking is wrong. If one were
> to samanvya of other instances, one will realize that the very such potency
> of prkriti (to create all this) in fact sourced from Brhamn only.
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> In the sUktha called `ambriNi' in Rig-Samihita 10-125-5, the speaker says;
> "yam kAmayE tam tam ugram kriNomi tam brahmANam tam sumEdhAm"
> (Whom I want to make Rudra I make him Rudra. I make him chaturmukha-brahmA
> whom I want to make Chaturmukha. I make him a sage whom I want make a sage.
> I make him wise whom I want to make wise)
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> Having stated this, She continues and says "mama yOnirapsu antah samudrE"
> (that which gives me birth dwells in the water within the sea).
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> Same idea is conveyed in Mahanarayana Upanishad "yata prasUta jagatha
> prasUti" (From Him born the mother of this
> jagat).
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> So, the correct understanding is that in Madhva's view, Brhamn is totally
> independent and does not depend on anybody for the business of this world.
> That is the reason why we have the sUtra Om jagat vyApArvarjyam Om
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The shaastra admits of a shakti not for nothing.  mama yonih mahatbrahma,
prakritih suuyate...etc. only show that without prakriti Brahman cannot do
anything. If Brahman is independent of prakriti, why does the shaastra say
that prakriti is the yoni, bhaarya, of Brahman?  The very idea of prakriti
is redundant if Brahman were to create independently.  Jagatvyapara varjyam
is only to say that the mukta jivas have no role in jagat vyapara which is
the domain of Brahman+prakriti.



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