Fate, Free-will and superimposition

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Hi Dennis,

>all concepts including the concept of free-will are mistaken

>superimpostions upon reality.

>karTRitva bhaava and free-will and the resulting sadhana or yoga are all

>arise due to adhyaasa only

 

I get to understand from this that all activities pertaining

to knowledge and its objects are due to "superimposition" or

adhyAsa of Atman denoted by "I" and anAtman which is all that is "non-I".

 

The free-will, kartrtva-bhAva, sAdhana or yOga, the resulting

knowledge and its objects are all "non-I" and therefore are all

anAtma.

 

Correct me if I am wrong, so from the point of view of a

particular individual, Atman is his own self and anAtman is

all that is different from it (such as free-will, kartrva-bhAva,

sAdhana, resulting knowledge and its objects, etc etc).

 

Thus, there is a clear cut difference between Atman and anAtman.

There seems to be no confusion between these two.

 

Any superimposition such as (silver-shell) is possible only because

there is "shiningness" which is common to both silver and shell,

and this common property is what produces the confusion

that "the shining object is silver" which is exactly what we

have called "superimposition" or "adhYAsa".

 

But between Atman and anAtman there is no such confusion.

 

My question is : how can we say they are superimposed on

each other when there is no confusion between these two

to beginwith?