nature of the soul and its liberation

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Dear Anand,

You have brought up an interesting question, but I feel

it is different from the one posed by Sri Harikumar. Since both

are interesting questions, I will try to focus the attention

of people on both of them.

 

1. Sri Harikumar's question is this: The Bhagavatam text and the

Brahma-bindu upanishad text seem to be teaching, on the face

of it, the essential non-difference between the jiva and

brahman. This is suggested by the fact that the sky or space

is one only, although it may be enclosed in different jars.

So how do SV acharyas interpret these texts?

 

 

2. Re your question, I think "vibhu" should be interpreted as

"all-pervading" and not "infinite". The question then is

how can paramatma `share the same space' with chetana and

achetana. I think Sri Bharat has addressed this (or a

related question) recently. (I feel that one possible way

out is to simply assert that paramatma does share the same

space with chetana and achetana. This is certainly plausible

for the reason that these are entities of different "kinds.")

 

 

-Kasturi

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SrI:

SrI Lakshminrusimha ParabrahmaNE namaha

SrI Lakshminrusimha divya pAdukA sEvaka SrIvaN-

SatakOpa SrI nArAyaNa yateendra mahAdESikAya namaha

 

Dear SrI KastUri,

namO nArAyaNa.

> Dear Anand,

> You have brought up an interesting question, but I feel

> it is different from the one posed by Sri Harikumar. Since both

> are interesting questions, I will try to focus the attention

> of people on both of them.

>

> 1. Sri Harikumar's question is this: The Bhagavatam text and the

> Brahma-bindu upanishad text seem to be teaching, on the face

> of it, the essential non-difference between the jiva and

> brahman. This is suggested by the fact that the sky or space

> is one only, although it may be enclosed in different jars.

> So how do SV acharyas interpret these texts?

>

>

> 2. Re your question, I think "vibhu" should be interpreted as

> "all-pervading" and not "infinite". The question then is

> how can paramatma `share the same space' with chetana and

> achetana. I think Sri Bharat has addressed this (or a

> related question) recently. (I feel that one possible way

> out is to simply assert that paramatma does share the same

> space with chetana and achetana. This is certainly plausible

> for the reason that these are entities of different "kinds.")

 

Actually, this question on vibhutvam was posed by SrI

Harikumar probably one or two months back. adiyEn mentioned

on these lines in my earlier posting as well. His question

on SrImad BhAgavatam is a recent one.

 

adiyEn will post on the issue of vibhutvam after sometime.

There are few intrictae issues involved in it.

 

By the way, apart from you, two others have sent a private

mail that Infinity - Infinity is indeterminate :-). adiyEn

agrees with it ; But adiyEn will elaborate the point(s)

conveyed by me in a later posting.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

anantapadmanAbhan.