[Advaita-l] Dwaita is samsara (bondage) - Srimadbhagavata

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Dwaita is samsara - Srimadbhagavata

Bondage and liberation  -  not real

श्रीमद्भागवतपुराणम्/स्कन्धः ७/अध्यायः १३

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In this chapter, here are the words of the enlightened man:

 तत्रापि दम्पतीनां च सुखायान्यापनुत्तये

कर्माणि कुर्वतां दृष्ट्वा निवृत्तोऽस्मि विपर्ययम् २५
सुखमस्यात्मनो रूपं सर्वेहोपरतिस्तनुः
मनःसंस्पर्शजान्दृष्ट्वा भोगान्स्वप्स्यामि संविशन् २६
इत्येतदात्मनः स्वार्थं सन्तं विस्मृत्य वै पुमान्
विचित्रामसति द्वैते घोरामाप्नोति संसृतिम् २७

Man strives for worldly pleasures. Due to this, the samsara (again and
again) bears the unreal duality. It is a verbatim validation of the
Kathopanishad passage - मृत्योः स मृत्युमाप्नोति य इह नानेव पश्यति –
He who perceives difference as real ends up in repeated birth and
death, samsara.

 In this chapter, the sage says:

 सुप्तिप्रबोधयोः सन्धावात्मनो गतिमात्मदृक्

पश्यन्बन्धं च मोक्षं च मायामात्रं न वस्तुतः ५

Bondage, bandha, and liberation, moksha, are not real- they are
Mayamatram, nothing but a mere appearance. It is noteworthy that the
word 'Mayamatram' is explained by the verse itself: ‘not real’.

 This is the restatement of the well-known verse of the Mandukya:

 प्रपञ्चो यदि विद्येत निवर्तेत न संशयः ।

मायामात्रमिदं द्वैतमद्वैतं परमार्थतः ॥ १७ ॥

[17 If the phenomenal universe were real, then certainly it would
disappear. The universe of duality which is cognized is mere illusion
(maya); Non-duality alone is the Supreme Reality.]