bAdha

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Namaste to all followers of this thread,

 

We can characterise reality in a digital or analogical way. Digitally

speaking it is True or False, On or Off, Zero or One. The dream can be

looked at this way. It never happened, it is pure mithya. Applying a

strict definition of reality to mundane mutations we can neither say that

they are or that they are not. They are simply contingent flux, they are

not.

 

The concept of bAdha introduces a quantitative, analogue approach. In

digital reasoning dream is not that which it ostensibly seems to be.

These events never happened so they must be contradicted on that basis;

however in a analogue manner they must be accepted as real consciousness,

they have a quanity of it so to speak. They are drawn under that heading,

or reality viewed in that manner. From a psychological perspective they

can tell us a lot about the dreamer also. There is a richness to the

analogue, quantitative, spectrum view that eludes the simplicity of binary.

 

Best Wishes,

Michael.

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Hi Ananda-ji,

 

 

 

I think that the concept of bAdha as 'sublation', understood as an

increasingly clear seeing of what is actually the case, fits in very well

with the key Advaita prakriyA of adhyAropa - apavAda. It is in this sense

that I was using the term, not as a direct contradiction.

 

 

 

Best wishes,

 

Dennis

 

 

 

advaitin [advaitin ] On Behalf

Of Ananda Wood

18 October 2007 04:36

advaitin

Re: bAdha

 

 

 

Namaste,

 

I must confess to being somewhat uncomfortable with technical terms

like 'bAdha' and 'sublation'. Literally 'bAdha' means 'opposition,

repulsion, driving away'. And in advaita logic, this term describes

the exposition of a contradiction, on the way to an underlying

clarity of truth. Hence 'bAdha' is translated as 'sublation' ('sub-'

meaning 'under' and '-lation' meaning a 'removal' or 'taking away').

 

But then, what is it that gets contradicted in this way? The

contradiction is directed against 'mithyA' which implies a false

confusion or mixing up of different things that need to be

distinguished. And the goal is a clear truth, beneath the

complications that confusion breeds.