[Advaita-l] SatChitPriyam

[Anand N]

Namaste,

in the archives of this group, this has been discussed and the respected
Anand Hudli has stated that
this occurs in the Saraswati Rahasya Upanishad in Krishna Yajur Veda. He
also goes on to explain this in the
post:
https://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/1998-April/008543.html

I am posting the relevant part here:

 Since we are within the context of ShAkta upaniShads, let me make use
 of the same. In the SarasvatI-rahasya-upaniShad, it is stated that
 five factors are observed here in the illusory world. These are
 1) asti, interpreted by UpaniShad Brahma Yogin as Existence, Sat,
 2) bhAti, interpreted as Consciousness, Chit,
 3) priyaM, interpreted as Bliss, Ananda,
 4) nAma, name, and
 5) rUpa, form

 Of these five factors, the upaniShad states, the first three, ie.
 Sat-Chit-Ananda pertain to Brahman. The last two, nAma-rUpa, pertain
 to the world.


Om Namo Narayanaya,

Anand




On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 08:25, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 11:20 PM smallpress via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Dear fellow Advaitins,
> > I would appreciate your collective thoughts on how to interpret
> > SatChitPriyam in the DrikDrishyaViveka in reference to Brhmarupam.
> > asti bhāti priyam rūpam nāma chetyamśapañchakam
> > ādyatrayam brahmarūpam jagadrūpam tato dvayam
> > I have never seen this form in describing Brhman.
> > What does this priyam refer to? Is it from the standpoint of Jiva?
> >
>
> Yes.  Every object is dear to one person/being or the other at least at one
> time or the other.  What is not dear to one could be dear to another. For
> example a man throws out a dead rat from his house. Quickly a crow lands on
> it happy to have got a meal.  While I normally spit out the phlegm, this
> time I safely collect it in a container to be handed to a lab for a test.
> This priyam aspect corresponds to the Ananda of Brahman; the other two
> being asti = sat and bhaati = chit.
>
> While the name and form in every object are maya and unreal, bereft of
> these, the object is simple no-object; it is purely Brahman. The BG Bhashya
> 2.16 is a fine read on this.
>
> regards
> subbu
>
>
>
> > Thank you much.
> > Soma
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