[Advaita-l] What is Prakriti as per Shankaracharya?

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

Prakriti is real for the ignorant person and Anirvachaniya for the
inquiring person and Tuccha like a hare's horn for the enlightened person,

It is the same as Maya. It cannot be Brahman.

On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 2:04 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Shankaracharya has indeed mentioned a lot about Prakriti in the Gita
> bhashya and elsewhere too. He has said that it is trigunatmika maya
> consisting of sattva, rajas and tamas.  It is  neither the same as Brahman
> nor is it different from bramhan. Its status is anirvachaniya, that is, it
> is unreal, mithya. It does not have an absolute existence; it appears and
> it is experienced but upon enquiry it ceases to be.
>
> regards
> subbu
>
> On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 1:35 PM The Crimson Universe via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello. Greg here with another question.
> >
> > Did Shankara mention in his Gita bhashya or other advaita texts about
> > Prakriti? Is Prakriti the same as Brahman or different from IT?
> >
> > Thank you.
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-Venkatesh