[Advaita-l] Regarding the term akhandakaravritti

[V Subrahmanian]

Namaste

The term aakaara is significant in the sense that all other vrittis have
some or the other parichchanna, finite, limited, form like ghata vritti,
sukhaakaara vritti and so on. When the aspirant by great effort keeps all
other objects away, and remains focussed on Atma Brahma as taught in the
shaastra, he succeeds in making the vritti of Atma Brahma aakaara. Since
Atma Brahma is nirakara but is not khanda, limited, it is termed a-khanda.
Hence the term is only to differentiate it from other khanda forms of
vritti.

We have terms line chidruupam, sadruupam, etc., again in the same sense as
above, even though Brahma has no rupam.

Regards
subbu

On Fri, 8 Aug, 2025, 11:36 am Uddeshya Sharma via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Shiva Shiva !
>
> Namaskara to Vidvans,
>
> Recently I came across this term akhandakaravritti and it's derivatives
> like akhandakaravrittigyana which had me questioning what this term could
> be refering to. My doubt is about the term aakara. If the term is about
> knowing Brahmana and becoming one with it in a state of awakening, why is
> there the term aakara when Brahmana is Nirkara and Nirguna to start with .
>
> This might seem like a silly query but I request your help in understanding
> this correctly.
>
> Hara Hara Mahadeva.
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