[Advaita-l] Advaithic Question on the Nature of MAYA and Illusory nature of Reality

[H S Chandramouli]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 5:22 PM Bhaskara v Advaith via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste,
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> Tried to answer the question hope it’s satisfactory.
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> This question has two parts and lets try to answer part by part
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> Part1: how does maya project Brahman as illusory
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>            Maya has two properties which are avarana shakti and
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> Vikshepa shakti. Because of avarana shakti the maya covers
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> the Brahman and because of Vikshepa shakti maya makes
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> brahman to appear as something else. When a person is
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> cognising a object lets say person Rama sees a ball, even through ball is
> brahman but because of maya it appears as ball for Rama. Now where does
> maya operate for Rama to make  appear Brahman as ball, basically to cognise
> any object it will involves mind (for details refer Vedanta Paribasha:
> Pratyaksha pramana) the mind (maya) covers the brahman and makes it to
> appear as ball the buddi(Vignana maya kosha) recognises it has ball.


Namaste.

Sorry the entire understanding is, I think, incorrect. Reference back to
Vedanta Paribhasha is certainly called for. The mental vritti actually is
said to uncover, NOT cover, the Chaitanya/Brahman associated with the
object, ball in this case. When the vikshepa shakti of mAyA projects the
object, ball in this case, it does so along with Chaitanya/Brahman which
remains veiled/concealed (partially). This veiling needs to be removed for
the object to be cognized. This is done by the mental vritti.

Regards

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