[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Kilogram concluded

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Sudhanshu Ji,
True. By something existent, all I mean is the following that I had said a
couple of emails ago:

Not the paramArtha sat of Brahman, not the vyAkRta form of existence that
is present post its creation, but some subtle form of existence.

It cannot be absence because an absence cannot veil. It cannot be
absolutely real like Brahman. It has the same reality as the world.

Regards
Venkatraghavan

On Wed, 4 Sept 2024, 09:53 Sudhanshu Shekhar, <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Venkat ji.
>
> I am in agreement with what you said. Except I have a small but important
> point to make in the context of the following:
>
> //If ignorance was not "something existent", why is the self-effulgent
> Brahman not known by all? //
>
> I think the requirement is fulfilled by ignorance being non-abhAva. We
> cannot claim that ignorance must be "something existent".
>
> It is a very important point. That ignorance is a cover-or proves only
> this much - it is not abhAva.
>
> One cannot claim that it has to be "something existent".
>
> Actually the words bhAva, abhAva, sat, asat etc have no equivalent words
> in English because these Sanskrit words in VedAnta have definite
> connotation which is not the case with English ones. So, even if one does
> not intend, it is liable to be misunderstood.
>
> Regards.
> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
>
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