[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Upadesha SAhasrI 18.43

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Bhaskar ji

sakShI svarupa is not being disputed as Chaitanyam and yes of course that
is not avidyakRta.
(You might say “thank heavens for small mercies!)

But sAxitvaM goes hand-in-hand with sAxyaM the witnessed which in this case
is avidya and its karya ie antaHkaraNam etc.

When we say something (starting with avidyA) is sAxI-bhAsya etc., such
vyavahAra is within avidyA alone. That is the starting point but not the
last word on sAxI.

Because upon enquiry sAxI’s Svarupa is arrived at as nirguNam nirvisheSha
 brahma etc and even sAxitvaM is understood as an upadhi.

Therefore sAxI is brahman (svarUpataH) but that cannot be the starting
point of any teaching or discussion

The starting point is the sAxI is antaHkaraNa-upahita-caitanyaM

The context is all important.

Om
Raghav



On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 at 9:28 AM, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> praNAms Sri Sudhanshu prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> SAkshI is not avidyA-krita. SAkshi-tva is avidyA-krita.
>
>
>   *   I asked this query to Sri Raghav prabhuji also, what is sAkshitva
> without sAkshi or in other words what is sAkshi without sAkshitva??  This
> would help me to draw the line between sAkshi and sAkshitva.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
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