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

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Hari Om V Subramanian ji,

1. Is asatya also sat? Table is asatya. Is it sat?
2. Are sat and satya synonyms?

Sudhanshu.

On Wed 21 Aug, 2019, 21:14 V Subrahmanian, <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:

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