[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [advaitin] Re: Analysis of Standpoints

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste Subrahmanian Ji,

That is right. But that is only part of the story as far as Advaita
Sidhanta is concerned. Serves a limited purpose, to show how you can
understand external duality/multiplicity as unitary. That represents
**tat** part of **tatvamasi**. But as far as a jnAni is concerned, it has
to be extended to **tattvamasi**. That is what I have covered.

Regards

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 6:15 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 6:06 PM H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Namaskaram Putram Ji,
>>
>> Reg  <<  The statue-cognition for both jnani and ajnani is not simply
>> due to adhyasa that has to vanish upon realizing I am seeing Stone only. It
>> denotes a lower order of reality >>,
>>
>> I do not think as between stone and statue, there is any lower or higher
>> Order of Reality, both represent the same rder of Reality for both jnAni
>> and ajnAni. But in respect of a jnAni, both stone and statue are
>> appearances only,lower Order of Reality, the Reality of both being Brahman
>> which is the same as Atman, which is the *I* sense of him. That is what is
>> meant by sarvAtmabhAva of a jnAni. For the ajnAni, both as stone as well as
>> as statue, it is different from *him*, his *I* sense.
>>
>
> Namaste
>
> I think Sri Putran ji's idea behind the stone-statue analogy is this:
>
> மரத்தை மறைத்தது மாமத யானை
> மரத்தில் மறைந்தது மாமத யானை
> பரத்தை மறைத்தன பார்முதல் பூதம்
> பரத்தில் மறைந்தன பார்முதல் பூதமே
>
> திருமூலர் 8-21
> http://www.thevaaram.org/thirumurai_1/s ... rtLimit=21
>
>
> (In a wooden statue of an elephant, the view of just the elephant and just
> the wood, is possible for the respective viewer who may focus of either of
> these where the other remains in the background. Similarly the pancha bhuta
> prapancha 'conceals' the world and the proper view is where the prapancha
> resolves in Brahman.)
>
> Shankara has used the simile in his Svatmanirupanam:
>
> दन्तिनि दारुविकारे दारु तिरोभवति सोऽपि तत्रैव |
> जगति तथा परमात्मा परमात्मन्यपि जगत्तिरोधते || 28 ||
>
> svAtmanirUpaNam (Page 94) Adi Sankara
>
> https://books.google.co.in/books?id=F6i ... ru&f=false
>
> This comparison was brought out by Maha Periava in his discourse on Adi
> Sankara (Dec 23, 1957) published in Acharya's Call (Part 1) (Page 115-119)
> 0 x
>
>>
>> Regards
>>
> subbu
>
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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