[Advaita-l] Swami Nischalananda Saraswathi replies to ISKCON's claims of Advaita being a Mayavadi

Srinath Vedagarbha svedagarbha at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 10:23:01 EDT 2018


On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:56 PM Dev Babu <devbab at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste Srinath ji
> Also w.r.t.
>  'mayaa adhyakshena prakritih suuyate sa caraacaram..'  Bh.gita. With
> >    me as presiding consciousness, prakritis creates this world.
>
> Shankara very clearly states that  " mayA addyakshena "  =
> drsi-mAtra-svarupeNa -  as a Witnessing agent alone, the creation of
> prakriti is done (or) as the Governing agent.
>

Do not ignore explicit possessive term 'mayA adhyakshENa'' and interpret it
as passive mere presence of  consciousness.

/sv


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