[Advaita-l] HH Sri Paramananda Bharathi Swamiji attained mukti

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Hari Om Bhaskar ji,

You are right. Swami Paramananda Bharati ji has distinguished avidya and
Maya and they are not synonyms as per him. Further as per him, unlike SSS,
Maya is not kalpita due to avidya (if I understand SSS correct here).

His teaching is a beautiful harmony of srishti-drishti and drishti-srishti.
So a rose is seen as rose by all human beings. None sees a rose as a lotus.
However, when we see rose, we see it as different from oneself. Such a
rose-different-from-me is a figment of my imagination and is a product of
my mind. This is due to avidya. With vidya, same rose will be seen as
non-different from one self.

Regards
Sudhanshu

On Thu 1 Aug, 2019, 09:44 Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> One interesting aspect of his approach was to question panchikaraNam as
> usually understood. He was also not in favour of the dRShTi-sRShTi
> prakriyas.
>
> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> My humble prostrations to this swamiji, long time back if I remember
> right, I had attended one of his discourses here in Bengaluru at prashanta
> gaNapati devasthAna.  And if I am right, like Sri SSS, he is not part with
> treating avidyA and mAya as synonyms, painting avidyA lesha to jnAni,
> avidyA is bhAva rUpa etc.
>
> And with regard to DS & SD vAda, one of the vedAnta discourser (forgot his
> name) was saying : seeing the sAmAnya in Ishwara srushti is srushti-drushti
> vAda, in this vAda there is no room to add any visheshaNa.  For example we
> have to look Ishwara srushti 'rose' as rose only without adding any
> attributes to it.  So that drushti will always be on srushti of Ishwara
> without adding anything of his own.  Whereas when one adds the visheshaNa
> to Ishwara srushti it becomes 'drushti-srushti', like rose is big/small,
> less petals / more petals, red/maroon, thick fragrance / less scented one
> etc.  this visheshaNa is srushti of an individual which is subjective
> varies from individual to individual gives room to drushti-srushti. So,
> according to him even drushti-srushti vAda is within the sphere of Ishwara
> srushti where visheshaNa added to already existing Ishwara srushti. He has
> not quoted any reference for this and the discourse was in Hindi (some
> North Indian swamiji it seems).   Do we find any reference for this type of
> definition in mUla / prakaraNa grantha-s??
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
>
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