[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Extremely powerful reasoning for 'Aham Brahmasmi' in the Bh.Gita

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 4:14 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste V Subramanian ji.
>
> JIva is Kshetrajna can be understood in two ways:
>
> 1. JIva is kshetra. And there is bAdha-sAmanAdhikaraNya resulting into
> jIva being stated kshetrajna.
>

Namaste

When we say Jiva is Kshetra, the question that would arise is: Is jiva jaDa
since the chapter defines kshetra as jaDa, which alone requires an agent
other than itself to reveal/illumine it.  As jivas we do not experience
that we are jaDa, being revealed by an external agent; on the other hand we
experience that we are sentient and it is we that reveal objects (including
our body-mind complex, after we are exposed to Vedanta).

regards
subbu



>
> Just as "world is Brahman", similarly "jIva is Brahman".
>
> Here, jIva is AbhAsa which is mithyA and is sublated completely through
> the statement "jIva is Brahman".
>
> 2. JIva is pratibimba. Pratibimba is Satya. Here, "jIva is Kshetrajna" is
> mukhya-sAmAnAdhikaraNya.
>
> Here, the vAchya-artha of jIva is NOT within kshetra. In the previous
> model, vAchya-artha of jIva (the AbhAsa) will come within the purview of
> kshetra.
>
> ========
>
> Thus, when jIva is stated to be Kshetrajna, depending on the model of
> AbhAsa and pratibimba, we have to take as to whether the vAchya-artha of
> word jIva will be kshetra (mithyA) or non-kshetra (Satya).
>
> Regards.
>
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