[Advaita-l] Avidya produces adhyasa - Bhagavatam

[V Subrahmanian]

Avidya produces adhyasa - Bhagavatam

In this chapter of the Bhagavatam there is a beautiful discourse on the
delusion that man becomes subject to.

The analogy given is - for a person who does not know the existing rope
there, there results the the error of taking it to be a snake. In this
context  the Bhagavata says avidya which is akin to ignorance of the rope,
results in adhyasa, that is the error of perceiving a snake.

One can go through the entire discussion that is aimed at triggering
vairagya:

श्रीमद्भागवतपुराणम्/स्कन्धः ११/अध्यायः २६
https://sa.wikisource.org/s/tw4


*किमेतया नोऽपकृतं रज्ज्वा वा सर्पचेतसः ।** रज्जुस्वरूपाविदुषो *योऽहं
यदजितेन्द्रियः ॥ १७ ॥
 क्वायं मलीमसः कायो दौर्गन्ध्याद्यात्मकोऽशुचिः ।
क्व गुणाः सौमनस्याद्या *ह्यध्यासोऽविद्ययाकृतः* ॥ १८ ॥

The translation is here:
https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/11/26/

Read from Text 17 onwards for the entire discourse.  It is very revealing.

regards
subbu