[Advaita-l] [advaitin] “Vighneshwara is the Jagat-karana Brahman” - says Shri Sarvajnatma Muni ji

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2025, Sudhanshu Shekhar wrote:

> So, one needs to admit that not only kAraNa-tva of Brahman, but even
> sAkshi-tva is avidyA-krita. And if kAraNa-tva is avidyA-krita, it is bound
> to be negated with the advent of jnAna.
>

What you are saying is a fact and I don't dispute it.  But what should 
ones reaction to that fact be?  Take the rainbow for example.  So 
beautiful!  People consider it Indra dhanush, take pictures and post them 
on instagram etc.  Actually it is an illusion caused by the refraction of 
light through water droplets.  Even once you know this...isn't a rainbow 
beautiful?

Looking at the variety of mystical experiences in the religions and 
cultures of the world it seems to me they are of two basic types.  One is 
a total feeling of diminishment.  One becomes acutely aware of ones 
complete and utter insignificance.  The other is a feeling of expansion. 
One thinks there is nothing that is not the self.  I would argue that the 
experience of the Rshis is of the second sort.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>