[Advaita-l] Padmapadacharya gives a long list of synonyms for Ignorance

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 4:13 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
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> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:38 PM Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
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>> praNAms Sri Srinivas Prabhuji
>> Hare Krishna
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>> Is  this  avidyA  same  as  the ones  mentioned  in the  long  list  of
>> synonyms  for  ignorance.Clarification  is  requested.
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>> >  For that matter synonyms provided for avidya by vyAkhyAna  grantha are
>> quite dubious and debatable.  I don’t know how can terms like  prakruti,
>> AkAsha, mAyA, avyAkrutaM, avyaktaM etc. be paryAya for avidyA.  If we say
>> AkAsha is avidyA then we have to say there is a birth to avidyA from Atman,
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>  *तदेतदव्यक्तं क्वचिदाकाशशब्दनिर्दिष्टम्* — ‘एतस्मिन्नु खल्वक्षरे
> गार्ग्याकाश ओतश्च प्रोतश्च’ (बृ. उ. ३ । ८ । ११)
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> श्रुतेः ;   sutra bhasya. 1.4.3.
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Bhaskar ji,  In that sutra bhashya Shankara cites the Br.Up. to say that
avidya/avyakta is 'called'  aakaasha.

In fact Brahman is also called by the name aakaasha. But this is not the
popular akasha, space/ether that you thought of and said 'atmanah aakaashah
sambhuutah.'


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>> AtmanaH AkAsh saMbhUtaH, AkAshAt vAyuH etc. and prakruti, lord says he
>> has two types of prakruti one is para and another is apara so, bhagavAn has
>> two types of avidyA then.  That too he acknowledges it as 'mama prakruti',
>> 'mama mAya'  😊 and through this prakruti dvaya he says he is the sarvajna,
>> Ishwara etc.  prakrutidvayadvareNa ahaM sarvajnaH, IshwarO jagataH kAraNaM
>> ityarthaH, says Geeta bhAshyakAra.  And that  mayAntu prakrutiM vidyAm
>> mAyinantu maheshwaraM, mAyin maheshwara is avidyAvaNta as per
>> mAyA=prakruti=avidyA 😊 So, vyAkhyAna-s should always be given second tier
>> status when mUla bhAshya / shruti / smruti  says entirely different thing.
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>> >  And it is always better to leave all these things AS IT IS  to flow in
>> tradition to protect the 'traditional teaching'.
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>> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
>> bhaskar
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