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

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Yes. Sorry. Asat is neither satya nor asatya.

On Thu 22 Aug, 2019, 13:22 Bhaskar YR, <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:

> Asatya is not sat and hence neither satya nor asatya
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> Hare Krishna
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> The first asatya in the above statement should have been ‘asat’ is it
> not??  Or am I getting confuses??
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> Rgds
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> *From:* Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:34 PM
> *To:* Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com>
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> Hari Om Bhaskar ji,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Regards
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> Sudhanshu.
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