Rajalakshmi
19 January 2008, 04:07 AM
Hello All,
Hari Om
Many people find it very hard to understand why Advaita says that this world is just an illusion isn't it? Or how the One undivided Brahman manifests as many. This is a modern attempt at explaining that.
Let us take an important number in mathematics known as j. (also denoted by 'i' and is the square root of -1). This number is purely imaginary and a mental concept exisiting only in the human mind and has no existance in the pratyaxa world. Is this number sat, asat or mithyA? Since it has no real existance, the number j is asat, while a number of the form 6 + 3j which has both real and imaginary parts is ideally called mithya. Since j is asat, does it mean it has no use or totally non existant? It is a well known fact that complex numbers and its theory have enormous applications even in real life. It is my view that the whole world is only mithya from the POV of Brahman just like complex numbers are mithya from our POV. jagat being mithya, advitIya Brahman is purely preserved. This number j is like the anirvacanIyam mAyA of advaita, and is immune to self contradictions and can violate laws of pratyaxa at will. An example will help.
Just consider the line y=jx. Can anyone tell me what is the angle this line makes with another line y=mx? Simple mathematical analysis shows that y=ix makes the same angle with every line of the form y=mx, which is arctan(j), an imaginary angle and a constant independent of m. Does pratyaxa reveal any examples of a line making identical angles with every other line?? If an imaginary line can behave like this, and blatantly contradicts pratyaxa under the influence of mAyA j - should we be surpised that the One Reality appears as many? Theory of mAyA is absolutely immune to all self contradictions by its very unique nature, and all objections to it are just based on delusion. Anyone just needs to play with complex numbers to have a glimpse of the mystery of mAyA and its power of delusion.
I request advaitin members to deeply ponder over complex numbers, and their significance in explaining the mithyatva of jagat. There is only Brahman who is Sat, and jagat that is mithya like the complex numbers, exisiting only in the mind.
Any attempts at offering an alternate explanation based on complex numbers( or abstract math such as Hilbert spaces) may be presented in this thread by others.
Hari Om
~RL
Hari Om
Many people find it very hard to understand why Advaita says that this world is just an illusion isn't it? Or how the One undivided Brahman manifests as many. This is a modern attempt at explaining that.
Let us take an important number in mathematics known as j. (also denoted by 'i' and is the square root of -1). This number is purely imaginary and a mental concept exisiting only in the human mind and has no existance in the pratyaxa world. Is this number sat, asat or mithyA? Since it has no real existance, the number j is asat, while a number of the form 6 + 3j which has both real and imaginary parts is ideally called mithya. Since j is asat, does it mean it has no use or totally non existant? It is a well known fact that complex numbers and its theory have enormous applications even in real life. It is my view that the whole world is only mithya from the POV of Brahman just like complex numbers are mithya from our POV. jagat being mithya, advitIya Brahman is purely preserved. This number j is like the anirvacanIyam mAyA of advaita, and is immune to self contradictions and can violate laws of pratyaxa at will. An example will help.
Just consider the line y=jx. Can anyone tell me what is the angle this line makes with another line y=mx? Simple mathematical analysis shows that y=ix makes the same angle with every line of the form y=mx, which is arctan(j), an imaginary angle and a constant independent of m. Does pratyaxa reveal any examples of a line making identical angles with every other line?? If an imaginary line can behave like this, and blatantly contradicts pratyaxa under the influence of mAyA j - should we be surpised that the One Reality appears as many? Theory of mAyA is absolutely immune to all self contradictions by its very unique nature, and all objections to it are just based on delusion. Anyone just needs to play with complex numbers to have a glimpse of the mystery of mAyA and its power of delusion.
I request advaitin members to deeply ponder over complex numbers, and their significance in explaining the mithyatva of jagat. There is only Brahman who is Sat, and jagat that is mithya like the complex numbers, exisiting only in the mind.
Any attempts at offering an alternate explanation based on complex numbers( or abstract math such as Hilbert spaces) may be presented in this thread by others.
Hari Om
~RL