[Advaita-l] Prakruti - Avidya lakshanaa - Gita bhashya and Mahabharata

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Subbuji
I presume you are drawing attention to the fact that in the gItA bhAShya
and mahAbhArata, the words avidyA and bhUta-prakRti / avyaktA are used
interchangeably at several places.

And hence it is implied that the idea that, in the wake of moxA, avidyA
alone goes away (abhAvagamanaM happens, as mentioned in bhAShya), while
mAyA continues, is not the position of bhAShya.

Right?

Om
Raghav

On Tue, 3 Dec, 2019, 4:17 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> In the Bhagavadgita bhashya for the last verse of the 13th Chapter,
> Shankara says:
> Prakruti - Avidya lakshanaa  - Gita bhashya and Mahabharata
>
> क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा ।
> भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर्यान्ति ते परम् ॥ ३४ ॥
>
>  भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च, *भूतानां प्रकृतिः अविद्यालक्षणा अव्यक्ताख्या**,*
> तस्याः
>  भूतप्रकृतेः मोक्षणम् अभावगमनं च ये विदुः विजानन्ति, यान्ति गच्छन्ति ते परं
> परमात्मतत्त्वं ब्रह्म, न पुनः देहं आददते इत्यर्थः ॥ ३४ ॥
>
>  The specifying of 'bhuta prakriti' as 'avidya lakshanam, named 'avyakta'
> in the Bhashya is in tune with this statement of Lord Krishna in the
> Mahabharata, Ashvamedhika parvan, when Arjuna asks him to give out the Gita
> teaching again:
>
> https://sanskritdocuments.org/mirrors/mahabharata/unic/mbh14_sa.html
>
>    *अव्यक्तादि विशेषान्तमविद्यालक्षणं स्मृतम्* | निबोधत यथा हीदं
>    गुणैर्लक्षणमित्युत ||२८||
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