[Advaita-l] Advaita Siddhi series 042 - upajIvyatvena pratyaksha prAbalya nirAkaraNam

[Belavadi Shankar]

Very good analyses
I have a question though:
Brahman is inhibited. Atman which is a part of Brahman is also infinity .
But atman is in every living things. So are they all infinity?

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 8:19 AM, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Venkatraghavan ji
> Thank you for the post.
>
> Regarding the naiyAyika, you wrote-
> 'In order for samyoga to occur between two entities, at least one of the
> entities must be finite. This is because samyoga is a temporary
> relationship that is born when one entity comes into contact with the
> other. *Two infinite entities cannot temporarily be in contact with each
> other*. Either they are permanently in contact or not at all. The self is
> admitted to be all-pervading, therefore if the mind must come into contact
> with the self, the mind cannot be all-pervading.'
>
> How would the naiyAyika address the still stronger statement that
> "If there are two entities X and Y which can come into temporary contact
> with one another, then it follows that *both*  X and Y are necessarily
> finite. If AtmA is *all-pervading*, it would always be in contact with even
> a finite mind. Because wherever mind is, even that space/domain is going to
> be pervaded by the all-pervading AtmA. So it follows that only if *both*
> entities are finite and non-all-pervading, there is a possibility of them
> coming into temporary contact with each other. "
>
> But the naiyAyika holds the AtmA to be all-pervading ?
>
> Thank you
> Raghav
>
> On Wed 28 Nov, 2018, 10:09 PM Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org wrote:
>
> > Namaste,
> >
> > Next post in the series:
> > *
> >
> http://www.advaitasiddhi.com/blog/pariccheda-1-upajivyatvena-pratyaksha-prabalya-nirakaranam
> > <
> >
> http://www.advaitasiddhi.com/blog/pariccheda-1-upajivyatvena-pratyaksha-prabalya-nirakaranam
> > >*
> >
> > Regards,
> > Venkatraghavan
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