[Advaita-l] [advaitin] prapanchopashamam explained in karika bhashya 2.35

[Bhaskar YR]

वीतरागभयक्रोधैर्मुनिभिर्वेदपारगैः ।
निर्विकल्पो ह्ययं दृष्टः प्रपञ्चोपशमोऽद्वयः ॥ ३५ ॥


प्रपञ्चोपशमः, प्रपञ्चो द्वैतभेदविस्तारः, तस्योपशमोऽभावो यस्मिन् , स आत्मा प्रपञ्चोपशमः,

prapancha = the expansive differentiated duality. This is not there in Turiya.

praNAms
Hare Krishna

He is nirvikalpa because he is free from veeta, raaga bhaya krOdha how ??  because he is not seeing the snake (avidyA srushti) in rope, his drushti is yathArtha drushti, bhUma drushti, he has sublimated all differences of (dvandva) of the world in HIM.  He is prapanchOpashama.  He is nirvikalpa one who is without imagination of duality.  Most of the post shankara vedAntins link this to the experience of nirvikalpa samAdhi as it is talking about prapanchOpashamanaM. So as per them one should retire to seclusive place, suppress his thoughts make his mind in an inert state and experience the absolute absence of prapancha.  It simply means he does not have anyone / anything different from him This absence of second is maNgalaM /auspicious / shiva and all imaginations (avidyA Kalpita prapancha) are inauspicious because they create veeta, raaga bhaya, krOdha like ‘snake’ seen in rope.  One should always remember that the literal annihilation of stUla bhautika prapancha is possible only by Ishwara and it will happen at the time of mahA pralaya and not at the dawn of Samyak jnAna.  So prapanchOpashamanaM needs to be understood dvaita bAdhita Samyak buddhi where one see nothing but himself.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar