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

[Belavadi Shankar]

Sorry not inhibited bad spel. Infinity that is what I meant.
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 8:47 AM, Belavadi Shankar <shankarbelavadi5 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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