[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Bhagavad Gita - As it actually is | Sanatana Dharma | Sri Shankara Bhagavatpada & Bhakti | Sringeri

[Bhaskar YR]

It does not posit ananyatvam as between Brahman and mAyA. On the other hand, it presents Shuddha Brahman and Iswara as ananya.
BGB  14-27 // … यया च ईश्वरशक्त्या भक्तानुग्रहादिप्रयोजनाय ब्रह्म प्रतिष्ठते प्रवर्तते, सा शक्तिः ब्रह्मैव अहम् , शक्तिशक्तिमतोः अनन्यत्वात् इत्यभिप्रायः । //
// …..yayA cha IshvarashaktyA bhaktAnugrahAdiprayojanAya brahma pratiShThate pravartate, sA shaktiH brahmaiva aham , shaktishaktimatoH ananyatvAt ityabhiprAyaH | //
praNAms Sri ChandramouLi prabhuji
Hare Krishna
For the sake of brevity I have deleted rest of your message (Kannada translation as well).  If the Ishwara tattva is clear then I think ananyatvaM between Ishwara and brahman and Ishwara and his shakti (mAya) can easily be understood.  Here you are saying that brahman and Ishwara as ananya but brahman and mAya are different.  I am not able to understand this.  Is this  Ishwara without shakti or with shakti??  With shakti (sarvashakta) jnAna (sarvajna) brahman itself called Ishwara is it not??  When it is called Ishwara (brahman) and his shakti NOT different, I am really not able to understand anyatvaM (difference) between mAya and brahman.  The mAya carries synonym ‘mUlaprakruti’ and it has been said that it is brahman, another synonym ‘akshara’ has again been equated with brahman, and another synonym of this mAya i.e. avyAkruta also clearly said brahman and nothing but brahman before creation and there is no difference between these two!!  So, I am really unable to understand your equation i.e. Ishwara=brahman BUT mAya is NOT equal to brahman.  Here what exactly is the difference between Ishwara (with  mAya) and brahman to say they are different and what strikes the equality between brahman and ishwara (without mAya)!!??
And when it has been well established that the jagat which is an effect of Brahman is itself non-different from Brahman, does it not follow automatically that Brahma mAyA too is not different from Brahman? Or am I missing something here??
Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar