Adhyaropa ? Apavaada or the Method of Deliberate Superimposition and Negation.

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advaitin, bhaskar.yr wrote:

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> praNAms Sri Subramanian prabhuji

> Hare Krishna

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>> bhaskar :

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> Interesting point here to be noted is shankara explicitly saying

that

> *sarvataH pANipAdaM* is *adhyArOpa* & sarvEndriya guNAbhAsaM,

sarvEndriya

> vivarjitaM etc. as *apavAda* This proves that Atman is ever

*nirvikAri &

> nirvishEsha* giving us no room to think that it has multiple limbs &

> indriya-s!!!...& shAstra deliberately doing this superimposition to

teach

> us unobjectifiable (apramEya) & attributeless (nirguNa)

> parabrahman..Shankara makes this point very clear in his

prashnOpanishad

> bhAshya while talking on *shOdasha kalA puruSha.  He says "atyanta

> nirvishEShE hi advayE shuddhE tattvE na shakyaH adhyArOpamaNtarENa

> pratipAdya pratipAdanAdi vyavahAraH kartum iti kalAnAm

prabhavastityapyayA

> ArOpyantE avidyA vishayaH*...how clear & lucid it is!! is it not??

without

> keeping the dualistic vyAvahArik drushti how can we define

undefinable

> Atman??  shAstra with great compassion on us adopting this method &

> attributing upAdhi-s to explain upAdhi rahita, nirvishEsha

brahman...When

> shAstra itself employing this method to teach parabrahman we cannot

> question it by using our mundane & conditioned intelligence..

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> VS prabhuji:

>

> As an aside point, let me mention something amusing.  Swami

> Paramarthanandaji once mentioned that in the Brihadaranyaka

Upanishad

> there is a very long discussion just on the origin of the pot.  It

is

> known as 'ghaTabhAshyam'!]

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> bhaskar:

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> Yes, there is an elaborated discussions on ghatAkAsha & mahAkAsha at

> various places in shankara's prasthAna trayi bhAshya...another

example is

> his gItA bhAshya.  On the BG verse, *na asatO vidyAtE bhAvO..na

abhAvO

> vidyatE sataH* commentary bhagavadpAda deals with this *pot & clay*

topic

> comprehensively & explains the role of kArya-kAraNa prakriya very

> effectively...He says since all kArya-s (effects) as such after

examination

> reveals the fact that they are nothing but its cause..kArya in the

form of

> name & form is *asat*..(sarvOvikAraH kAraNa vyatirEkENa anupalabdEH

> asaN...)at the end he beautifully explains further that even clay

as the

> *cause* of the pot is also asat since this clay as an effect is not

> appearing different from its cause!!! He says *mrudAdi kAraNasya cha

> tatkAraNa vyatirEkENa anupalabdE asatyaM*...

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> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

> bhaskar

>

 

Namaste Bhaskar ji,

 

Thanks for those very appropriate quotes from the Acharya's Bhashya. 

Thanks especially for the Prashnopanishad quote.

 

Regards,

subbu