[Advaita-l] Mithya and Maya

Anbu sivam2 anbesivam2 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 08:37:47 CDT 2009


Pedantic?! Hmm!

We are Hindus and our view is: Tat Tvam Asi - YOU ARE ALREADY THAT!
(even if you don't think so!)

NOTHING IS CHANGING!!

If I ask you to find out to whom it is dawning I will be asking you to chase
the non-existant.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Michael Shepherd <
michael at shepherd87.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> I guess you could be really pedantic, and say, that when knowledge of
> Brahman dawns, mithya dissolves; but maya as prakrti acting in the three
> gunaa, continues while prakrti continues... while atmabrahma views it with
> indifference !
>
> Michael
>
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>
> Maya is itself mithya, because it is found to be non-existent when
> knowledge
> of Brahman dawns.
>
> praNAms Sri Sastri prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> But in geeta commentary itself shankara hints about the 'pariNAmi
> nityatva' to the mAya as against 'kUtastha nityatva' of parabrahman is it
> not??  shankara calls mAya as achala & dhruva in geeta bhAshya.yasmAt
> achalam tasmAt dhruvaM nityaM ityarthaH, clarifies shankara.  Hence, in
> vyAvahArika sence we can say mAya is pariNAmi nitya, thus mAya cannot be
> categorized as mithya atleast from the srushti & vyavahArika point of
> view. Atleast for the srushti  kriya we have to accept the pariNAmi
> nityatva of mAya.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
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