[Advaita-l] Tattvabodha of Adi Sankaracharya - 23

S Jayanarayanan sjayana at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 1 17:11:18 EST 2020


 smallpress smallpress at ymail.com wrote:
 
> > The standard explanation is that desire is generated due to avidyA or ignorance, which itself is said
> > to be ultimately unreal when Brahman is known as-is.
> > 
> > The sequence usually given is:
> > 
> > avidyA (ignorance) -> kAma (desire) -> karma (action)
> > 
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> Thank you for the response. Avidya leads to Kama which leads to karma, yes. But that does not seem to answer the question
> how avidya can exist in Brhman? 
 
It doesn't. For avidyA only *appears* to exist in Brahman. The analogy given is that of a screen on which the images appear transiently.
 
> Thanks
> Soma
> 
 
Regards,
Kartik
 
  


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