[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Story of the Tenth man - enacted in real life..

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 12:00 PM Praveen R. Bhat <bhatpraveen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Subbuji, you might recall, a few years back there was an article of a
> woman in a picnic group in the US who had changed her clothes and didn't
> fit the description of herself announced as missing and joined the search
> group! She wasn't even drunk!
>

Yes, Praveen ji, I think I even posted the article here.  Such real life
situations only confirm the power of the analogies stated in the Bhashya.
Here is one fine example:

This short story, of about a minute, rendered in Kannada by a Madhva
scholar (in the video linked)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/142XwgJtSIGLONJQL6-UmnWUG9_LRuz9V/view?usp=sharing


demonstrates a point Shankara makes in the Brahma Sutra Bhashya 2.1.14.  In
order to explain the idea that 'a mithya vastu can bring about a real
effect and the Veda that is not paaramarthika satya can generate real
liberating knowledge that is unsublated, abaadhya, on the analogy of a man
dying because of entertaining a strong doubt that he has consumed poison.'
   In the video the story is: A man encounters the Devataa in charge of
decimating a huge population by inflicting a deadly disease (something like
Corona).  She tells him 'I am going to take the lives of 3000 people by
this disease.' The man resigned to the idea that divine will can't be
altered, goes away. A few days later he encounters that devataa and
questions: You had said your target is 3000 lives but 30,000 have died in
the pandemic.'  She replies: I stuck to my target but all those extra
deaths are due to their assumption that they have contracted the disease.'

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/workers-panic-as-lizards-tail-is-found-in-breakfast/article8623198.ece

Workers panicked after they heard that a colleague had found a lizard’s
tail in his breakfast plate in a private industry in the Naubad industrial
area here on Thursday.

As the news spread, around 30 workers vomited thinking that they too might
have consumed “poison”.

“They were all admitted to hospital and discharged in a few hours. They are
all healthy and fit, and will soon return to work,” factory manager Rajesh
Rao said.

A team of Health Department officers visited the unit and gave tips on
handling such situations, District Health and Family Welfare Officer
Baburao Hudgikar said.//





>
> Kind rgds,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
> That, owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 4:23 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Believe it or not! Drunk man, reported missing, participates in the
>> search for himself - Times of India
>>
>> https://m.timesofindia.com/viral-news/believe-it-or-not-drunk-man-reported-missing-participates-in-the-search-for-himself/articleshow/86607862.cms
>>
>> त्वं दशमोऽसि।
>>
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