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Lesson 11-Bondage/Question 5

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    • April 11, 2024 at 7:20 pm #623798
      Sudharma Kantheti
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      Hari OM!

      Could you please clarify the following?

      For the 5TH question: Śrī Ādi Śaṅkarācārya (in Ātmabodha, verse 45) gives the analogy of the post–thief. Which of the following does the example elucidate?

      One of the answers given in the answer key is:
      a) Ignorance of the POST is the cause of misapprehension of the post as a thief. So too, ignorance of PARAMATMAN causes Its misapprehension to be the jīvātman

      My question is:
      Is it the “ignorance of the post/Paramatman” that causes the misapprehension of the post/SELF as a thief/Anatma ? or IS it the “ignorance of the PERCEPTION of the individual or JIVA/ANATMA” that causes the misapprehension of the post as a thief since,
      Paramatman is NEVER ignorant even though it has the self deluding power “SAKTHI” of the self which could be destroyed by the dawn of self knowledge as it is of the nature of SAT(That exists in all 3 periods of time, considering the fact that ignorance is neither SAT nor ASAT)- CHIT- ANANDA?

      QUESTION 6:
      Ajñāna comes under the category of mithyā/anirvachaniya because:
      If Ajnana can’t be either SAT or ASAT then,
      Is it not that Ajnana doesn’t exist in all 3 periods(Present,Past,Future) of time?
      since it won’t be there in future after the ignorance is destroyed by the light of SELF knowledge..

      Thank You!

    • April 11, 2024 at 7:23 pm #623949
      Anant Sarma
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      Hari Om!

      Question 5

      Maya has two powers, avarana shakti and vikshepa shakti, the veiling power and projecting power. The ignorance of the post/paramatman is what Gurudev calls as non-apprehension. It is the jivatman who is under the influence of this ignorance and not paramatman. When the Truth is veiled, the projecting power of maya is capable of project any number of things. That is what is described as misapprehension.

      Question 6

      Anivachaniya, inexplicable is something that cannot be explained as sat, existent or asat, non existent. As you had mentioned because ajnana can be ended, it should be asat. At the same time, we do experience ajnana, in statements such as I don’t know this or that. So we say it is sat, existent. So ajnana cannot be described definitively as sat or asat. Therefore it is anivachaniyam.

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