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

[Bhaskar YR]

Asatya is not sat and hence neither satya nor asatya

praNAms
Hare Krishna

The first asatya in the above statement should have been ‘asat’ is it not??  Or am I getting confuses??

Rgds
bhaskar

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Hari Om Bhaskar ji,

Asat and mithya are non-existence as per Swamiji. World is Brahman only. Its upAdAna is Maya which is non-different from Brahman. However, due to avidya, we imagine this world as different from Brahman. This different-from-Brahman-imagined-world is asat/mithya. Similarly Maya is non-different-from-Brahman. But because of avidya, we imagine Maya to be different from Brahman. Such different-from-Brahman-imagined-Maya is asat like shasha-vishana and mithya. Such Maya is stated to be non-existent and not the one which is non-different from Brahman.

Further, satya and asatya are both sat. Asat is non-existence. World is asatya and sat. Brahman is sat and satya (satya refers to sad-Brahman of sadeva saumya). Asatya is not sat and hence neither satya nor asatya. This is what Swamiji holds as per Bhashya.

Regards
Sudhanshu.