[Advaita-l] Nirguna Brahman as the source of TriguNa Avyaktam

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:18 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V Subramanian ji,
>
> Then where is advaita is you admit sAkshi-sAkshya having sannidhi mAtreNa?
>
> If you say that sAkshya is bhAva-abhAva-vilakshaNa, then also there is no
> advaita for something other than Brahman is admitted.
>
> Nothing helps. To say that these are anirvachanIya, sat-asat-vilakshaNa
> etc does not help solve the issue at all.
>
> I am talking of my feeling at the heart of hearts. Of course we can give
> logic and logic to feel satisfied.
>

Actually there is no need to anguish. This is the best way Advaita can be
taught. Even the Mandukya 7th mantra teaches the Turiya as the entity where
the entire creation is negated.

चतुर्थः पादः क्रमप्राप्तो वक्तव्य इत्याह — नान्तःप्रज्ञमित्यादिना ।
सर्वशब्दप्रवृत्तिनिमित्तशून्यत्वात्तस्य शब्दानभिधेयत्वमिति
विशेषप्रतिषेधेनैव तुरीयं निर्दिदिक्षति । शून्यमेव तर्हि ; तन्न,
मिथ्याविकल्पस्य निर्निमित्तत्वानुपपत्तेः ; न हि
रजतसर्पपुरुषमृगतृष्णिकादिविकल्पाः शुक्तिकारज्जुस्थाणूषरादिव्यतिरेकेण
अवस्त्वास्पदाः शक्याः कल्पयितुम् । एवं तर्हि
प्राणादिसर्वविकल्पास्पदत्वात्तुरीयस्य शब्दवाच्यत्वमिति न प्रतिषेधैः
प्रत्याय्यत्वमुदकाधारादेरिव घटादेः ; न,
प्राणादिविकल्पस्यावस्तुत्वाच्छुक्तिकादिष्विव रजतादेः ; न हि सदसतोः सम्बन्धः
शब्दप्रवृत्तिनिमित्तभाक् , अवस्तुत्वात् ;

Shankara teaches even the Turiya as the substratum of the superimposition
of all non-Atman. We cannot say that this is ad admission of a second
entity. Swami Paramarthananda would nicely say:  in the case of a
rope-snake illusion, the snake cannot be counted as a second as it has no
existence at all.

In fact the word avastu in the above bhashya transcends the anirvachanIya,
sat-asat-vilakshaNa etc.

regards
subbu

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