[Advaita-l] Omnipresence

Kaushik Chevendra chevendrakaushik at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 12:46:12 EDT 2020


Shruthi also says that the atman(isvara according to dvaita) should be seen
everywhere. If there exists a difference isvara cannot be seen everywhere.
Many smriti also says one attains liberation only upon seeing the
omnipresent atman everywhere and in everyone.

On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, 22:00 Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
>
> The Acharya of Dvaitis has accepted only the Nimitta Karanatva of Ishwara.
> That means the world did not spring out of Ishvara's body. The Jeevas are
> always separate from Ishvara and Jada is separate from Jeeva and Ishwara.
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> *jiiveshvara bheda chaiva jadeshvara bheda tatha |jiiva-bhedo mithashchaiva
> jaDa-jiiva-bheda tatha |mithashcha jada-bhedo.ayam prapajncho
> bheda-panchakaH ||– paramashruti*
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> *“The difference between the jîva (soul) and Îshvara (Creator),and the
> difference between jaDa (insentient) and Îshvara;and the difference between
> various jîvas, and the difference between jaDa and jîva;and the difference
> between various jaDas.”*
>
> *-Paramopanishad*
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> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 8:32 PM Kaushik Chevendra via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> > In dvaita philosophy there is a difference between jiva, isvara, matter,
> > doesn't this compromise the omnipresence of isvara.
> > If isvara alone existed in beginning and nothing else how was matter
> > created in dvaita philosophy? He has to create matter from himself only
> as
> > nothing else existed.
> > What is the dvaitas reply to the above questions?
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