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true Bhaskar ji, it s logical to say drushti beda than sathya beda...coz there is not beda in ONE sathya

 

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Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:25 pm (PST)

 

praNAms

Hare Krishna

 

I dont know what exactly has been written in this article...But IMO, it is

totally inappropriate to use drushti & satya alternatively. eka rupENa hi

avasthitO yOrthaH sa paramArthaH says shankara in sUtra bhAshya. It is

ONLY due to our ajnAna drushti we see the duality in IT. And more

importantly whenever shankara talks about vyAvahArika & pAramArthika he

uses in the sense of 'drushti bedha' ONLY and not as 'satya bedha'....I

think, this drushti bedha is very important for the advaita sAdhaka-s

since world existence appearance seems to be more solid in our present

status!! But instead of drushti bedha if we use the theory of 'satya

bedha' then it would hamper the very purpose of advaita vedanta i.e.

ekameva adviteeya satya of brahman. In this bruhadAraNya bhAshya (3-5-1)

itself makes it amply clear it is only drushti bedha and NOT satya bedha.

(yadA tu paramArtha drushtyA

paramAtmatattvAcchrunusAribhiH...........nAmarupOpAdhidrushtireva cha

bhavati sAbhAvikee tadA sarvOyaM vasthvantArAstitvavyavahAraH....And in

geeta shAstra bhAshya too shankara explicitly uses : loukika

pAramArthikadrushti apekshaya...etc. etc.

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true Bhaskar ji, it s logical to say drushti

beda than sathya beda...coz there is not beda in ONE sathya

praNAms Sri Narendra Sastry prabhuji

Hare Krishna

Thanks for echohing my perception on

this subtle issue. I was thinking all these days that 'drushti bedha'

is only my own 'araNya rOdanaM' without any support from any corner :-))

Because, my paramaguruji, Sri SSS, who left no stone unturned with regard

to intricacies of shankara siddhAnta, too, did not take up this issue

in any of his works...anyway thanks onceagain for joining me to sing my

song :-)) I am holding only one shankara's quote for this view point.

In sUtra bhAshya shankara emphatically declares that there are no

grades of existence, and whatever has existence that is ONLY atman/brahman.

He clarifies here, just as brahman the cause never deviates from

existence in all the three periods of time, so also the effect (socalled),

the world, never deviates from existence in all the three preiods. And

existence again is ONLY ONE. So for this reason also, the effect

is none other than the cause. Though context here is kArya-kAraNa

prakriya, shankara denies the gradations in existence & attributes

existence to ONLY ONE satya i.e. paramArtha satya. So according to

him, it is only brahman that appears as the world 'due to ajnAna' (like

dviteeya chandra, silves in place of nacre...ref. vide adhyAsa bhAshya)

and we have no 'real' origination of the world at all to give it

a status of 'satya'...

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

bhaskar