[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Illusoriness of causation (cause-effect-relationship)

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms
Hare Krishna

It is really a quite irony that those who are trying to bring the adhyAsa itself within the ambit of kArya-kAraNa prakriya by claiming that there is solid kAraNa for the kArya adhyAsa etc. now trying to talk about the illusoriness of kArya-kAraNa prakriya 😊 Anyway, those who are trying to say kArya-kAraNa ananyatvaM ultimately saying that it is meant for realizing the ultimate siddhAnta of shruti-s i.e. AtmaikatvaM.  bhAshyakAra clarifies this : ananyatvepi kArya-kAraNayOH kAryasya kAraNAtmatvaM 'na tu kAraNasya kAryAtmatvaM'.  We say jagat as kArya entirely dependent on brahman and not different from its kAraNa brahman but brahman does not undergo any modification (vikAra) and in his svarUpa he is always nirvikAri and nirvishesha.  In the chAndOgya shruti bhAshyakAra clarifies : All the names and forms are real only 
with reference to their cause, but independently by themselves, they are unreal.  With this thinking in mind, bhAshyakAra elsewhere clarifies in sUtra bhAshya :  just as  brahman the 'cause' never deviates from existence in all the three periods of time, so also the effect, the world, never deviates from existence in all the three periods (srushti, sthiti & laya).  And existence again is ONLY ONE.  So for this reason also THE EFFECT IS NONE OTHER THAN THE CAUSE.  

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar