[Advaita-l] [advaitin] World is mind alone: Shankara (sharing an old post) in the Mundakopanishad bhashya

[Bhaskar YR]

passage names that antarātman, not the mind, as sarva-kāraṇam.

praNAms Sri MCC prabhuji

Hare Krishna

Even if you give 101 clarification / justification like this to prove brahman is the sarva kAraNa – kAraNa, some advanced students of Advaita are not ready to accept it.  In the worst case scenario they grudgingly admit that this teaching is ONLY for maNda adhikAri-s, we being the uttama adhikAri-s very well know / realized that Ishwara, Ishwara srushti, karma, karma phala etc. are just our mental imagination and to be precise Ishwara is just a ‘product’ of our own think and dark ignorance so there is nothing that can be called as Ishwara and IshwarAnugraha!!  This is what exactly I was calling an utter blasphemy and absolute nAstika vAda which is obviously shruti and bhAshya bAhira.  As you rightly observed when there is creation it invariably points out to paramAtma / Ishwara and definitely not to float the malicious theory of jeeva mAnasa srushti or mind all theory of vijnAnavAdins.  Anyway, enough said on this.  For those who have shraddha and bhakti in Ishwara, shruti and bhAshya, who are not ready to compromise the shruti verdict and who are not beating the shruti and bhAshya siddhAnta by holding dry logic sticks in their hands, here is what bhagavatpAda said in his sUtra bhAshya :

//  the sarvajna and sarvashakta kAraNa from which proceeds the srushti, sthiti and nAsha (laya)of this universe, the jagat which is differentiated by name and form comprehends many agents and experiencers of the karma phala and is the abode of the fuits of actions (bhOga bhUmi) regulated by particular places, times and causes (the jagat) whose creation is NOT EVEN conceivable by the mind and that ONE and ONLY cause if brahman//

This is the Astika para Advaita siddhAnta as advocated by Shankara bhagavatpAda who was not mere dry logician  but a saint par excellence.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

bhaskar