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

[The Crimson Universe]

Namaste Venkatesh ji.

Will it be correct to say that prakriti or maya is just a manifestation
(vyakta state) of the impersonal formless Brahman?

On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 8:05 PM Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> 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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