[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: avidyA is adhyasta (superimposed) in AtmA

[Ananta Chaitanya [Sarasvati]]

Namaste Raghavji,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>
> I remember reading that such an idea (viz., the idea that nAmArUpe dvE
> avidyA-pratyupasthApite) is only figurative vide., viSha-samyuktam-annam
> viShamityucyate. So they would maintain that nAmarUpe are mAyA-kRte. And
> only kArya-kAraNa-ananyatvaM remains to be appreciated in the case of
> nAmarUpe.
>
> 1. Even supposing (for arguments sake) they don't say that mAyA is
> avidyA-kalpitA, and instead independently they (or someone else) say Maya
> is the material cause of antaHkaraNa etc with kArya-kAraNa-ananyatvaM with
> Brahman, and thus dismiss avidyOpAdAna-kAraNatva , what would be the best
> counter to that? (My take is that the way they explain KKA, the kAraNopAdhi
> is not sublated and there is no bAdha of dvaita in SSS method. )
>
>
This is interesting. In Muktavali-Dinakari, I recall that the Sankhya
pUrvapakSha states that due to KKA, they consider jagatkAraNa PradhAna as
separate from Purusha, otherwise there is prasakti of kAryanAshe
kAraNanAshaH, kAryakAraNAnanyatvAt! They don't want puruShanAsha. :-)

Kind rgds,
--Ananta Chaitanya
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