[Advaita-l] Paul Hacker on Avidya in Brahma Sutras

[Vinodh]

Thank you very much for your clarifications! 🙏

On Wed 1. Jun 2022 at 12:03, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
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> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 8:09 PM Michael Chandra Cohen via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>> Sri Vinodh, Yes indeed - neither mAyA nor avidyA exists outside perception
>> - no different than dream, perception only.
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>> Conventional Vedanta however posits eshwara's mAyA that survives the fall
>> of avidyA.
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> This is correct in this sense that when a Jiva overcomes Avidya and
> becomes enlightened and therefore liberated, Ishwara and his connection
> with the world and all the other jivas does not end.  All the other jivas
> continue to be in Samsara and Ishwara's relevance is definitely there for
> all of them. This is the conventional stand of Advaita. Only if this is
> admitted the possibility of one Jiva becoming enlightened and teaching the
> others is possible. The others who are in the path of realisation are yet
> under the protection and guidance of Ishwara.  It is Ishwara that has
> enabled the connection between the jivas and the enlightened Jnani.  The
> delay for the enlightened one to get videha Mukti is only until his
> prarabdha is over. Advaita does not accept prarabdha to Ishwara because
> Ishwara is never a Jiva according to Advaita. Ishwara is nitya
> (pravaha/parinami) Sarvajna in Advaita.
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> In the Brahma sutras there is a discussion on a Jnani taking one or many
> more births to exhaust his extremely great Punya prarabdha and his taking
> births is ordained by Ishwara. Such a Jiva is called 'Aadhikarika purusha',
> like Veda Vyasa who was a sage by name Apantara tamas.
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> regards
> subbu
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