[Advaita-l] asat & asatya / sat & satya

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 8:39 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Hari Om Bhaskar ji,
>
> As per Swamiji, the definition of satya and asatya ( = anrita) is as per
> Taittiriya -- सत्यमिति यद्रूपेण यन्निश्चितं तद्रूपं न व्यभिचरति, तत्सत्यम्
> । यद्रूपेण यन्निश्चितं तद्रूपं व्यभिचरति, तदनृतमित्युच्यते. In short, satya
> is unchangeable while  asatya is changeable.
>

In this Taittiriya bhashya itself, in that very place Shankara has said: एवं
सदेव सत्यमित्यवधारणात् ।   Sat alone is Satyam. The avadharana, emphasis,
he is referring to is 'sadeva somya idam agra aasiit' of the Chandogya.
That Sat is Brahman. This section there is called sadvidya. He has
identified sat as satyam itself, and immediately says: अतः ‘सत्यं ब्रह्म’
इति ब्रह्म विकारान्निवर्तयति ।  So, for Shankara 'satyam', 'sat' are both
Brahman.

warm regards
subbu

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> Both satya and asatya is sat. Swamiji has not quoted bhAshya for the
> definition of Sat but it can be taken from Gita 2.16.
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> Asat, as per Swamiji, is here's horn, non-existence. Again he has not
> quoted any bhashya vakya for asat.
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> Sudhanshu.
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