[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Shankara says: Vedantins have no purport in Creation

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

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> Namaste Subbu ji.

From this we conclude that Shankara does not hold the creation shrutis as
> having any significance for the Vedantin.  Shankara emphasises this twice
> in this very bhashya.
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Creation-shruti are not devoid of significance for VedAntI. They hold great
significance - by being the tool through which advitIyatva of Brahman is
established. However, they don't have significance in their literal meaning.

The paramArtha-chintaka has no interest or prayojana in physics of
creation. This is because: investigating the physics of dream-creation is
useless. There is no physics there at all.

The paramArtha-chintaka has, however, prayojana in advitIyatva of Brahman
which is established by creation-shruti.

That is why creation-shruti are called arthavAda by BhAshyakAra in
Aitareya. Their dwArabhUta-artha is to be ignored whereas the
lakshya-artha, which is in unison with pramANa-vAkyAs proclaiming
advitIyatva of Brahman, is to be accepted.

...अस्तु तर्हि सर्वमेवेदमनुपपन्नम् । न, अत्रात्माववोधमात्रस्य
विवक्षितत्वात्सर्वोऽयमर्थवाद इत्यदोषः ।

Regards,
Sudhanshu Shekhar.

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