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

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

On Thu 1 Aug, 2019, 5:25 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Hari Om Bhaskar prabhu ji,
>
> I find the arguments of both sampradAya as well as by SSS/Swami Paramananda
> Bharati ji as very very strong.
>
> I am also in awe of mind-boggling details to which Chitsukhi/Advaita-siddhi
> goes.
>
> Though appealing, the arguments such as Brahman becoming sarvajna through
> avidya, have been adequately addressed in sampradAya.
>
> We need to keep a window always open imho. Since everything is
> fundamentally based on a belief of pramAnatva of Shruti -- I don't discount
> the possibility that our entire VedAnta itself may not be correct (no
> matter how pointless our lives become then). And hence adequate respect to
> science need to be given. And therefore I get shocks when I read things
> like darkness being some stuff.
>
> Regards.
> Sudhanshu.
>

Not sure if the use of the word yatkincid bhAvarUpA for categorising avidyA
(a much weaker word than "hard-core" bhAvarUpA and in keeping with
anirvacaniyA khyAti) used by many Acharyas like Sri Sadananda in
vedAntasAra help lessen the shock? :)

Om

Raghav

>
> On Thu 1 Aug, 2019, 15:34 Bhaskar YR, <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:
>
> > Further as per him, unlike SSS, Maya is not kalpita due to avidya (if I
> > understand SSS correct here).
> >
> >
> >
> > praNAms Sri Sudhanshu Shekhar prabhuji
> >
> > Hare Krishna
> >
> >
> >
> > We have to be very careful while interpreting Sri SSS words.  Yes, at
> most
> > of the places Sri SSS says mAya is avidyA kalpita (fictiously imagined by
> > avidyA based on bhAshya vAkya-s like avidyAtmikA hi beeja shaktiH avyakta
> > shabda nirdeshya, avidyAkalpitena cha nAmarUpa lakshaNena rUpabhedena
> > vyAkrutAvyAkrutAtmakena etc.) but context in which we have to understand
> > that vAkruta (nAma rUpa)  and avyAkruta (beeja shaktiH) both are avidyA
> > kalpita is whenever they are viewed separate from brahman it is mere
> > figment of avidyA.  But when this ‘shakti is realized as brahmAnanya’
> there
> > is no anAtma whatsoever apart from brahman.  If you know kannada I would
> > like to quote here from Sri SSS’s one of the Kannada works : avyAkruta
> nAma
> > rUpagaLu tamma AtmasvarUpavannu ettukonde vyAkrutavAguttade.  “ NAAMA
> > RUPAGALIGE BRAHMAVE SVARUPAVU” AADARE BRAHMAKKE NAAMA RUPAGALU
> > SVARUPAVALLA” egalu ella kadeyalliyu Atmane eruttaaneye horatu
> berondilla,
> > AATMANIGINTA BEREYAADA ANAATMA VEMBUDU ELLIYU ENDIGU ERUVUDE ELLA.   It
> is
> > just because : tasmAt kAraNasya Atma bhUtA shaktiH, shakteshcha Atma
> bhUtaM
> > kAryaM.  And finally all these details have been floated just to drive
> home
> > the point that ornaments are nothing but GOLD but GOLD is NOT ornament on
> > the GOLD nAma rUpa adhyArOpita since GOLD was / is / will always be
> > nirvishesha and nirlipta.  Itareya bhAshya 1-1-1 would be more relevant
> > with regard to this.  And Lord’s declaration in Geeta : yasmAt mama
> > prakrutiH yOniH kAraNaM sarva bhUtAnAM, …..prakrutidvayadvAreNa
> > (chetanAcheetana prakruti) ahaM sarvajnaH IshwarO jagataH kAraNaM….If
> > unwarrantedly equates avidyA with mAya/prakruti then brahman becomes
> > sarvajna through his avidyA 😊 so absurd is it not?? 😊
> >
> >
> >
> > Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> >
> > bhaskar
> >
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