[Advaita-l] space, time, causality, error and duality versus mUlavidyA vAda

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2026, Michael Chandra Cohen via Advaita-l wrote:

> Shankara characterizes adhyasa - the fundamental superimposition - as
> *anadi*. Beginingless.
> The standard reading treats this temporally. Infinitely old. Time runs back
> without finding a beginning.

The problem is that anAdi does in fact mean "beginningless" i.e. 
stretching infinitely back into the past.  That is why it is the standard 
reading; it is in fact the plain meaning.


> But that reading is too shallow. Infinitely old is *still a temporal* 
> concept - time is still running, adhyasa just has no starting point 
> within it. The deeper and more precise reading is this _ *anadi means 
> beyond the temporal framework ENTIRELY*. Not that time runs back forever 
> without finding a begninng. But that time itself has no foothold here.

Where is "here"?  Are we talking about vyvahara or paramartha?


-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>