[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Does the mukta/jnani see the world?

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 3:01 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste V Subramanian ji.
>
> Nice references.
>
> In fact BhAgavAta PurANa 6.16.53-54 takes the example of dream within
> dream and avers complete identity of waking, dream and deep sleep.
>

Nice, could you pl. produce the Bhagavata verses?  Thanks

subbu

>
> Regards.
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2023, 14:52 V Subrahmanian, <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sri Vidyaranya in his Anubhutiprakasha, on Aitareya Upanishad, says:
>>
>> स्वप्नः स्वकाल एवास्ति नान्यदा सुप्तिजागरौं ।
>> तथैवेति स्वप्नसाम्यात् त्रयः स्वप्ना उदीरिताः || 17
>>
>> Dream is present only during its existence; not during sleep and waking.
>> In the same way, being of the nature of dream, all the three states are
>> stated by the Upanishad as three dreams.
>>
>> स्थूलसूक्ष्मबीजप्रपञ्चाः त्रयः स्वप्नाः - The gross, subtle and causal
>> worlds are three dreams - explains Upanishad Brahma Yogin for the Aitareya
>> mantra.
>>
>> Also since there is ignorance about the Truth, which persists in all
>> three states, the svapnatvam of all three are admissible. We get this
>> reasoning from the Mandukya Karika:
>>
>> अनादिमायया सुप्तो यदा जीवः प्रबुध्यते ।
>> अजमनिद्रमस्वप्नमद्वैतं बुध्यते तदा ॥ १६ ॥
>>
>>
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