[Advaita-l] Question about Avaccheda vada

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Aditya Kumar <kumaraditya22 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

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>  The term upadhi does not have any
>  negative connotation. It only shows Nirguna Brahman as
>  someone with certain attributes, visheshas. NB with maaya
>  shuddha sattva as upadhi is Ishwara. It need not and does
>  not limit Ishwara.
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> A: But can trigunatmika maya be found in NB? If there is guna, then there
> is karma and hence the cycle of samsara. So ishwara is also a samsarin?
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It cannot be 'found' in NB. The shaastra 'makes' an Ishwara out of NB and
Maya. This is for a purpose.

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>  In fact he is admitted to be Sarva
>  Shakta and Sarvajna. The mahavakya 'Tat tvam asi'
>  straightaway means 'tat = the jagatkaaranam which is
>  omniscient and omnipotent. tvam is the jiva who is embodied,
>  samsari, etc.  Since 'asi', identity cannot happen,
>  the upadhis on both sides are negated. What remains is pure
>  consciousness. Thus the identity. So, both jivatva and
>  Ishwaratva are negated.
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> A: No confusion here. But the key is, it is the jiva who is superimposing
> karanatvam on tat and as such tat itself is free from all attributes.
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It is the shaastra that superimposes kaaranatvam on Tat. This is called
'adhyaropa.  The apavada is 'no jaati, no creation.'



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