[Advaita-l] Dicussion on Advaitha (Shankara)vedantha

[Siva Senani Nori]

Sri Srikanta, praNAm.

At the end of anubhUtiprakASa, I think, Sri Suresvasarcharya observes that finally the free get freed. Similarly in the Taittiriya Upansidhad, in the Brahmanandavalli, after the panchakoSavidya, a question is posed about where the knowers of Brahman go and where those who do not know Brahman go, after death. The idea is that whether we realise we are Brahman or not, fact is we are. The day we realise it, we are rid of fear (that arises out of the second), and the misery that accompanies the dvaitabhAva. It is like obtaining the necklace one was searching for, on one's own neck. Though the necklace never left the seeker, she had frantically searched for it, in the process shouting on those nearby as well, or cursing and suspecting servants, and maybe even some unscrupulous guests. If you accost such a lady in the midst of her necklace-search, she is bound not to be amused by the suggestion that the search is a vrithAprayAsa - wasted effort; at the same time, to those who
 know that she is wearing the very necklace she is searching for, her efforts - tApatraya is the word we use in Telugu for such frantic efforts - do seem silly. This is the theory.