[Advaita-l] Relationship between Brahman and avidyA

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Sudhanshuji,

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 8:22 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> What exactly is the relationship between Brahman and avidyA? Brahman is
> changeless, activity-less.

...

>
> If one says that two entities, Brahman
> and avidyA, will violate advaita then it is answered that avidyA is mithyA
> and it is avastu and non-existent and hence advaita is not violated.
>

Incidentally, I came across the following verses of Panchadashi quoted from
the 2nd chapter:

निस्तत्त्वा कार्यगम्यास्य शक्तिर्मायाग्निशक्तिवत् ।
न हि शक्ति क्वचित्कैश्चिद्बुद्ध्यते कारयतः पुरा ॥ २.४२॥

...
न लोके चैत्रतच्छक्त्योर्जीवितं गण्यते पृथक् ॥ ४६॥
...
सर्वथा शक्तिमात्रस्य न पृथग्गणना क्वचित् ।
शक्तिकार्यं तु नैवास्ति द्वितीयं शङ्क्यते कथम् ॥ ४७॥

gurupAdukAbhyAm,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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