[Advaita-l] Fwd: Cause-effect non-difference - Srimad Bhagavatam

[V Subrahmanian]

A eulogy by Paramashiva in the episode of Srihari's Mohini Avatara:
श्रीमद्भागवतपुराणम्/स्कन्धः ८/अध्यायः १२
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एकस्त्वमेव सदसद् द्वयमद्वयं च
स्वर्णं कृताकृतमिवेह न वस्तुभेदः ।
अज्ञानतस्त्वयि जनैर्विहितो विकल्पो ।
यस्माद् गुणव्यतिकरो निरुपाधिकस्य ॥ ८ ॥
Although You are the only principle and the supreme cause of the world,
You, who are the cause, are not different from the world which is the
effect. But seeing the world as different from yourself is due to
ignorance. It is because you are devoid of attributes that you do not have
this cause-effect difference in reality.
Here is an example: Gold is seen as a cause, jewelry as the effect. But
there is no real difference between the cause, gold, and its effects. The
Chandogya Upanishad gives this example to convey this very doctrine.
The Brahma sutra 2.1.14 states this very doctrine of 'kArya-kAraNa
ananyatva (non-difference of cause and effect)
This Vedantic premise is accepted only in Advaita. In other schools this
doctrine does not apply with the accuracy of the gold analogy.
See Sridhara Swami's commentary image for this verse here:
https://groups.google.com/g/advaitin/c/vkIYZX3yUbk



Om