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

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms
Hare Krishna

Even those who talk of nirvikalpa samadhi do not say that the sthula bhautika prapancha is annihilated.


  *   But they definitely insist the literal experience of total absence of prapancha to get the ‘practical experience of advaita’ don’t they!!??  As per them the theoretical knowledge of non-duality should be experienced in practical experience of NS…Hence even some Jagadguru-s say to experience the practical Advaita jnAna I entered NS from such and such time to such and such time and came back to world.  Etc.

They only say that during that samadhi, the sthula sukshma karana prapancha is not experienced and when out of samadhi, it is bAdhita (due to samyak jnana) but anuvritti of bAdhita prapancha is there.


Ø     So prapanchOpashamanaM does not mean prapanch will vanish in thin air after the dawn of jnAna.  avidyA srushti goes and Ishwara srushti would continue and in this sense jagat is brahmAbhinna.

Gaudapada himself, in the Advaita prakarana, has discussed at length samadhi and the obstacles to samadhi and their remedy.


Ø     There are various meanings to the word samAdhi it is not necessarily patanjali’s asaMprajnAta samAdhi or later vyAkhyAnakAra-s nirvikalpa samAdhi in ashtanga yOga sense.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar