[Advaita-l] Avidya is virodha or abhava-1 review and redo

[Jaishankar Narayanan]

Namaste ji,

What you have written about Kena Upanishad vAkya is not correct. Please do
shravanam from some traditional shrotriya Guru. May God bless you with such
a Guru.

with love and prayers,
Jaishankar

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM Raja Krishnamurti <
rajakrishnamurti at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone, We are here only to seek Brahman the one and everything as
> well and ultimately realize That. What we are doing here is purely
> intellectual and one has to go beyond pure intellectualism; Of course
> intellectualism is better than body or mind level. in Vedanta, there are
> four key requirements or qualifications (sādhana-catuṣṭaya) considered
> essential for an aspirant to be prepared for the study of the Vedas and the
> pursuit of spiritual liberation (moksha). These are: Nitya-Anitya Vastu
> Viveka (नित्यानित्य वस्तु विवेकः): This refers to the ability to
> discriminate between the eternal (nitya) and the impermanent (anitya). It's
> about recognizing that Brahman (the ultimate reality) is eternal and
> unchanging, while the material world and all its objects are temporary and
> subject to change. As indicated Nitya Anitya discrimination is the
> fundamental requirement. One needs to understand that anitya is only that
> which is impermanent and has no existence without the Truth or even better
> Rutham which is the Reality that is beyond perception. The Kena Upanishad
> states that one who claims to know Brahman does not truly know it, while
> one who acknowledges their ignorance of Brahman is considered to have some
> understanding. This is because Brahman is considered unknowable through
> ordinary means of cognition. Let us individually seek the truth as Moksha
> is not wholesale, but is based on God’s Grace and individual karma. God
> Bless All.
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