[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Bhagavad Gita - As it actually is | Sanatana Dharma | Sri Shankara Bhagavatpada & Bhakti | Sringeri

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste Bhaskar Ji,

Reg  // mAya is the shakti through which brahman become creator, without
which brahman is incapable of doing anything.  Hence it would be better to
go by siddhAnta that shakti or shakta is Shuddha brahman only //,

I am not sure I understood  this correctly. In the first sentence you are
saying mAyA is the shakti. In the second sentence you are saying  ** shakti
or shakta is Shuddha brahman only **. The two appear to me to be
contradictory. In my understanding, in the first sentence, mAyA should be
stated as  the **entity** and not **shakti**. That it is a **shakti** is
adhyAsa only. I am not sure if you have meant the same.
Regards

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM 'Bhaskar YR' via advaitin <
advaitin at googlegroups.com> wrote:

> praNAms Sri ChandramouLi prabhuji
>
> Hare Krishna
>
> The ONLY Entity  what we understand as Shakti is Shuddha Brahman or
> NirguNa Brahman. All else are inert.
>
> Ø     Yes, I am in agreement with you prabhuji as there is no difference
> between shakti and shaktivanta.
>
> When it is said that mayA is Shakti , it should be understood  only in a
> figurative sense.
>
> Ø     mAya is the term used just to show the active brahman mAya is not
> separate from brahman nor it is identical with brahman hence it is also
> called anirvachaneeya.  And this anirvachaneeyatva of mAya is implicit in
> the non-difference sambandha between shakti-shakta.
>
> mAyA which is inert derives its capacity to act as a shakti from Shuddha
> Brahman/Shuddha Chaitanya only. The ONLY Shakti or Shakta is Shuddha
> Brahman.
>
>    -  Yes prabhuji.  mAya is the shakti through which brahman become
>    creator, without which brahman is incapable of doing anything.  Hence it
>    would be better to go by siddhAnta that shakti or shakta is Shuddha brahman
>    only.  In the bhAshya there is discussion about how at one place avyAkruta
>    itself became vyAkruta and at another place the paramAtma parabrahman
>    himself made this avyAkruta as vyAkruta…for this answer that vedAnti gives
>    is that : the avyAkruta jagat (the jagat in unmanifested form) is paramAtma
>    himself hence no problem in saying this.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
>
> bhaskar
>
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