What did Sankara really teach?

[Guest guest]

The highest form of non-apprehension is that of realisation where there is

non-apprehension of diversity.

 

Best Wishes,

Michael

 

Dear Michael-ji,

Swami Satprakashananda says on page 170 of his book 'Methods of Knowledge'

that the advaita school of Vedanta holds that the absence of multiplicity is

known directly by non-apprehension in transcendental experience or immediate

apprehension of non-dual brahman. But he has not stated in which work on

advaita such a statement is found. Perhaps he is referring to the absence of

all cognition during nirvikalpa samAdhi. When the jIvanmukta comes out of

samAdhi he sees the world, but knows that it has no reality and looks upon

it only as an appearance of brahman. So there would be no non-apprehension

of diversity for him then, i.e., there would be apprehension of

diversity. But there would also be no mis-apprehension of the nature of the

world for him as there is for us who look upon it as real.It has been stated

in works on advaita that there is vikshepa for the jnAni also, but there is

no AvaraNa and so he is not deluded. Swami Chandrasekhara Bharati's

commentary on Vivekachudamani may be referred to in this connection.

S.N.Sastri

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

advaitin , " S.N. Sastri " <sn.sastri wrote:

>

> The highest form of non-apprehension is that of realisation where

there is

> non-apprehension of diversity.

>

> Best Wishes,

> Michael

>

> Dear Michael-ji,

> Swami Satprakashananda says on page 170 of his book 'Methods of

Knowledge'

> that the advaita school of Vedanta holds that the absence of

multiplicity is

> known directly by non-apprehension in transcendental experience or

immediate

> apprehension of non-dual brahman. But he has not stated in which

work on

> advaita such a statement is found.

Swami Chandrasekhara Bharati's

> commentary on Vivekachudamani may be referred to in this connection.

 

Namaste,

 

Also, the following refernces may be helpful:

 

Sri Anand Hudli on Madhusudana Sarasvati's Advaitasiddhi:

 

http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2000-

March/000326.html

 

[if the above links fails -

 

OR http://tinyurl.com/27mdnw ]

 

and

 

http://www.advaitasiddhi.org/ (especially part 14)

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder