[Advaita-l] Please clarify some terms for me.

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

> Namaste Soma ji
> The word AvaraNa is the 'veiling power' of avidyA and it does indeed
> continue in deep sleep. AvaraNa, please note, is not there "in" the mind.
> AvaraNa does not need the mind to exist. Rather this entity called 'mind'
> is an effect or consequence of AvaraNa and vixepa.
>
> A helpful way of visualising this is by the dream analogy. Within a dream
> there is a dream body and dream mind and dream mountains etc. The knowledge
> that "I am in reality the waking person lying on the bed, is veiled/blocked
> in the dream." This veil/block cannot be said to restricted to the being
> 'within' the dream mind. Rather the dream mind is also part of the dream
> world itself. And the entire dream world (including dream body and dream
> mind and dream mountains) are a projection born of AvaraNa and vixepa
> capacity which belongs to the *waker*.
>
> Now coming to the waker himself. His mind, body and external world
> experienced by him are all projected due to the vixepa shakti aspect of
> avidyA.
>
> That is why I had written that we should not think the waking mind has a
> certain defect/lacuna called AvarANa. Rather the waking mind itself would
> not have got created/projected but for AvaraNa which continues in deep
> sleep.
>
> You can also use another logic. If there was no mind in deep sleep. How or
> why did we wake up at all? Some dormant capacity was there even in deep
> sleep which leads to a waking mind and waking world arising/getting
> projected from that condition of  "no-mind-deep-sleep".
> Om
> Raghav
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Aug, 2020, 7:53 PM smallpress, <smallpress at ymail.com> wrote:
>
>> Very interesting thought, Raghav. If no mind in sushupti, which seems
>> right,  how can there be avarana?
>> Kindly clarify.
>> Thank you.
>>
>> On Thursday, August 13, 2020, 06:30:51 AM EDT, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via
>> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Namaste Soma
>>
>> http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/teachers/maya_hudli.htm
>>
>> On AvaraNa and vikShepa, please see the above link
>>
>>
>> The *mind itself* is a part of the projected World. So we don't say the
>> mind "has" AvaraNa etc. Maybe you are already clear about this. But
>> thought
>> I would reiterate this.
>>
>> In deep sleep, there is no manifestation of the mind or world. No vikShepa
>> is present. But AvaraNa is still there.
>>
>>
>>
>> Soma
>>
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