[Advaita-l] Necessity of Creation

[S Venkatraman]

Thanks a lot Nagarajan Sir. Could access his whole thesis. Regards,

Venkat

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> On 20-Jun-2020, at 3:36 PM, Krishnamurthy Nagarajan <knagarajan2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Respected Venkataraman Mahodayah,
> 
> The above article forms Chapter 7 of the Doctoral Thesis submitted by Shri C.J. James under the title " A critical study of brahmasutrsankarabhasya on samanvaya chapter 1".
> The link for the entire Doctoral Thesis can be had from the following link.
> https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/162378
> 
> You can either view or download each chapter separately.
> 
> With regards, 
> Nagarajan K.
> 
>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 13:30, S Venkatraman via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> Dear Sir,
>> 
>> This is indeed an extremely well written and lucid text. It is written by who and what is the whole text of which this Chapter 7 is a part? Will it be possible to get a link to the whole text?
>> 
>> Many thanks and regards,
>> Venkat
>> 
>> 
>> > On 20-Jun-2020, at 12:34 PM, Mahadevan Iyer via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Pranams Atman,
>> > 
>> > An excellent resource on Samanvayam.
>> > 
>> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HOlc2fmiIBE5KiUzVzpVhhr9G2vRXX8e/view
>> > 
>> > *Regards,*
>> > Mahadevan Iyer
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 23:28, Mahadevan Iyer <mahadevan.n.iyer at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Pranams Atman,
>> >> 
>> >> What is the necessity for creation ? Why not everything just be
>> >> in its primordial state ?
>> >> 
>> >> In Advaitam, there is no creator, the process of creation, and that which
>> >> is created.
>> >> 
>> >> Brahman appears as Jagat through Jeeva.
>> >> 
>> >> In my view, our perception of MANY, does not eliminate the existence of
>> >> the ONE. Just as the perception of two eyes, four limbs, ten fingers etc...
>> >> does not eliminate the existence of the ONE body.
>> >> 
>> >> Human brain ( Anthakaranam ) creates pairs of duality, like dark & light,
>> >> small & big, short & tall etc. One of which is defined in terms of the
>> >> other. Hence, perception is NECESSARILY of dual nature.  This applied
>> >> recursively leads to apparent multiplicity.
>> >> 
>> >> The trick is that we think in terms of cause and effect by creating a
>> >> timeline of events.
>> >> 
>> >> How Brahman appears as Jagat, cannot be cognized by this logic as Brahman
>> >> is not time bound.
>> >> 
>> >> Kindly convey if there is a better explanation for this. Thank you.
>> >> 
>> >> *Hari Om,*
>> >> Mahadevan Iyer
>> >> 
>> >> 
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