[Advaita-l] Aitareya Upanishad, Bhashya and Kenopanishad Bhashya - Ekavaakyataa

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 3:18 PM Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:

> इति सर्वविशेषापोहसंवेद्यं सर्वशब्दप्रत्ययागोचरं
> तदत्यन्तविशुद्धप्रज्ञोपाधिसम्बन्धेन सर्वज्ञमीश्वरसंज्ञं भवति
>
> That same Brahman when in association with the upadhi that is the Purest
> Prajna, Mayavrtti, is spoken of as the All-knowing Isvara
>
> praNAms Sri Subbu prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> Where is the word 'mAyAvrutti' in the above bhAshya vAkya??  If the mAya
> is avidyA then the above bhAshya vAkya saying brahman by associating itself
> with purest prajna upAdhi (vishuddha prajnOpAdhi saMbandhena) avidyA
> vrutti, brahman is depicted as sarvajna.  Don’t we get the question here
> how come the brahman who is having the association with 'avidyA vrutti' be
> sarvajna as well??
>

Dear Bhaskar ji,

Good that you raised that question.  We have many passages, as you already
know, in the Bhashya, one is this in the Arambhanadhikarana: 2.1.14:

 ‘ सर्वाणि रूपाणि विचित्य धीरो नामानि कृत्वाभिवदन्यदास्ते’ (तै. आ. ३ । १२ ।
७) ‘ एकं बीजं बहुधा यः करोति’ (श्वे. उ. ६ । १२)
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इत्यादिश्रुतिभ्यश्च
; एवमविद्याकृतनामरूपोपाध्यनुरोधीश्वरो भवति, व्योमेव घटकरकाद्युपाध्यनुरोधि ;
स च स्वात्मभूतानेव
घटाकाशस्थानीयानविद्याप्रत्युपस्थापितनामरूपकृतकार्यकरणसङ्घातानुरोधिनो
जीवाख्यान्विज्ञानात्मनः प्रतीष्टे व्यवहारविषये ;
तदेवमविद्यात्मकोपाधिपरिच्छेदापेक्षमेवेश्वरस्येश्वरत्वं सर्वज्ञत्वं
सर्वशक्तित्वं च, न परमार्थतो विद्यया अपास्तसर्वोपाधिस्वरूपे आत्मनि
ईशित्रीशितव्यसर्वज्ञत्वादिव्यवहार उपपद्यते ; तथा चोक्तम् — ‘ यत्र
नान्यत्पश्यति नान्यच्छृणोति नान्यद्विजानाति स भूमा’ (छा. उ. ७ । २४ । १)
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इति
; ‘ यत्र त्वस्य सर्वमात्मैवाभूत्तत्केन कं पश्येत्’ (बृ. उ. ४ । ५ । १५)
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इत्यादि
च  ...

Here Shankara says Ishwara is one who has the upadhi of nama rupa created
by avidya.  And again, there itself, he says Ishwara's sarvajnatva and
sarvashaktitva are due to avidyaatmaka upadhi...   So, for Shankara the
kaarya prapancha is due to avidya, which he says in another place, and all
that is associated with this kaarya prapancha has to be necessarily be
'tinged' by avidya, even sarvajnatva, etc.  Here is the other passage:

अविद्याकृतं कार्यप्रपञ्चं विद्यया प्रविलापयन्तः    BSB 3.1.1.  One would
sincerely believe that the Shruti says Brahman created the world and
therefore it should be brahma-kaaryam. But here Shankara says the karya
prapancha is avidya kruta. Even if it is maya kruta that is not different
for Shankara as he has said here, BGB 14.10:

गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्भवान् ।
जन्ममृत्युजरादुःखैर्विमुक्तोऽमृतमश्नुते ॥ २० ॥

गुणान् एतान् यथोक्तान् अतीत्य जीवन्नेव अतिक्रम्य मायोपाधिभूतान् त्रीन् देही
देहसमुद्भवान् देहोत्पत्तिबीजभूतान्
Now, what should maya do for the jiva's body-production?  It is
trigunatmika maya and this is a product of maya.  We all know that it is
due to avidya the dehaadi is kalpita, yet the maya element is also there.
regards
subbu



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> Again not for debate, I take your words as your stand.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
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