[Advaita-l] In Advaita alone the jiva is not jaDa

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:10 PM, Ravi Kiran <ravikiranm108 at gmail.com>
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> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:14 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>> In Advaita alone the jiva is not jaDa
>> [That alone you realize as Brahman which is called Vishnu, the immutable
>> supreme.  That is the controller of the devas and others and there is none
>> other higher than that.]
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>> We see that Madhva specifies that the impeller is the controller of the
>> jiva.  We get the impression that the jiva is impelled, like the inert
>> mind, prana, sense organs, etc. That means the jiva in such a construct is
>> not something that is completely divested of the not-self, anatma, that is
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> Interesting .. how would one explain, atma vidyA/jnAna in such a case ?
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For them since the jiva continues as jiva in mukti also, but without the
body-mind complex of the samsaric state, there is a svarupa deha which has
sense organs etc. that are required to engage in bhoga.  Their jiva size is
also atomic, anu. For more details one has to read their books.





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