mOksha/ Self Realization According to ShankaraBhagavadpada

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But Jiiva is not different from Brahman from the absolute sense, since

there is nothing other than

Brahman and therefore it appears to be locus of ignorance. But this kind

of logic of Ramanuja

transgresses the advaitic doctrinal statement. If one recognizes that

there is nothing other than Brahman,

there can not be ignorance either since Brahman is one without a second.

 

Then jiiva has ignorance - but that result in anyonya ashraya dosha or

defect of interdependence - that is

jiiva is a product of ignorance and therefore jiiva cannot have ignorance

for him to be a product.

 

praNAms Sri Sadananda prabhuji

Hare Krishna

 

To counter these objections from dualistic schools, later advaita Acharya-s

from paNchapAdika / vivaraNa schools introduced new concocted theory like

*avidyA upAdAna kAraNa* ( material cause for ignorance) & declared that

this main avidyA is the primary (mUla) one and a positive entity

(bhAvarUpa). And these vyAkhyAnakAra-s continue to say in defence of this

theory that this bhAvarUpa avidyA is the material cause for this universe

and jIvAtman's separate identity and also three types of avidyA i.e.

mis-conception (anyathAgrahaNa), saMshaya (doubting) and agrahaNa....and to

maintain consistency of advaita's absolute non dual philosophy, they goes

on to say this mUlAvidyA is mere imagined (kalpita) one!! But I am not

able to understand if it is mere kalpita it would not / cannot be a

material cause for adhyAsa but it is a fact that they emphatically declare

that *mUlAvidyA is the material cause for this secondary three types of

ignorance (adhyAsa) in their commentary. If at all it is really a material

cause for adhyAsa then it has its own potency in a positive form and sits

parallel to brahman as another reality...that which cannot be destroyed by

any amount of knowledge...coz. it is a positive *thing* sitting pretty

:-)) is it not??

 

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

bhaskar