[Advaita-l] [advaitin] SB 6.4.29, 30 Brahma Nirgunam with Sridhari commentary

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms
Hare Krishna

Anything expressed by material vibrations, anything ascertained by material intelligence and anything experienced by the material senses or concocted within the material mind is but an effect of the modes of material nature and therefore has nothing to do with the real nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.


  *   Yato vAcho nivartante aprApya manasa saH…na tatra chakshurgacchati na vAgacchati nO manaH…The wrongly perceived rajju as sarpa but rajju has nothing to do with this wrong perception.  World and seeing it as an independent existing thing is the avidyA drushti but brahman who is abhinna nimittOpadAna kAraNa of this jagat has nothing to do with this avidyA / adhyAsa drushti.


The Supreme Lord is beyond the creation of this material world, for He is the source of the material qualities and creation. As the cause of all causes, He exists before the creation and after the creation. I wish to offer my respectful obeisances unto Him.


Ø    Reminds me purusha sUkta atyatishTa dashAngulaM, yes he is beyond this jagat while he himself is the jagat as jagat is vishesha rUpa of that nirvishesha brahman.


The Supreme Brahman, Kṛṣṇa, is the ultimate resting place and source of everything. Everything is done by Him, everything belongs to Him, and everything is offered to Him. He is the ultimate objective, and whether acting or causing others to act, He is the ultimate doer. There are many causes, high and low, but since He is the cause of all causes, He is well known as the Supreme Brahman who existed before all activities. He is one without a second and has no other cause. I therefore offer my respects unto Him.


Ø     sarvaM khalvidaM brahma tajjalan iti shAntyupaaseeta…there is nothing that can be said as existing apart from brahman.

the Mahabharata verse where Narayana himself reveals to Narada his Vishwarupa and calls it a display of his māyā:


  *   Thank God!!  He does not say vishwarUpa is the display of his avidyA 😊

In other words, it is Ajāti, no-creation. Creation is an adhyāropa to take the aspirant to the Brahman that is not related to anything.


Ø     The creation, creator and created things are not mutually exclusive, it is HIM only, the creation and the process of creation, kArya-kAraNa etc. are just there to drive home the point that brahman is the secondless truth.  And to convey this point only, shruti explains the act of creation in various ways by means of illustrations like that of clay, metal and sparts etc. clarifies bhAshyakAra.  With regard to cause and effect Sri SSS somewhere makes this comment : from the rescission of this very relation of cause and effect, however we have to conclude that this method of cause and effect has been devised only for the purpose of revealing the non-difference of the effect from the cause.  For there are shruti-s like : he is born in diverse ways while he is really never born (ajAyamAno bahudhA vijAyate).

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar