Namaste Madhavan
Originally Posted by
Madhavan
Can you atleast enumerate the dasha padArthAs of Dvaita? Can you do the same for VishistAdviata? Or even for Advaita?
I can enumerate infinite padArthAs. I have said that what is true in consciousness is true. All these categories are however categories of Prakriti of one Atman. And that Prakriti has three potential categories only -- the black, the red, and the white, which again are conditioning of pure knowledge that Brahman is.
Niralamba Upanishad
3. (1) Brahman is the ineffable Spirit. It appears as the Mahat (the Sankhyan Great), the ego, (the elements) earth, water, fire, air and ether – the macrocosm and as actions, knowledge and ends. It is non-dual and free from all adjuncts. It is big with all powers and is without beginning and end. It may be spoken of as pure, good, quiescent, unqualified.
4. (2) God is the veritable Brahman that, depending on Its power called Prakriti creates the worlds and enters (into them) as the inner Controller of Brahma, etc., (He) is Ishvara, as He controls the intellect and the sense-organs.
5. (3) The living being (Jiva) is he who, through false superimposition, affirms ‘I am gross’ due to ‘the name and form’ of Brahma, Vishnu, Isana, Indra, etc. (Jiva thinks): Though I am one, due to the differences of the causes that originate the body, the Jivas are many.
6. (4) Prakriti is but the power of Brahman; it is intellectual in nature and competent to create the variegated and marvellous world from (the matrix) of Brahman.
7. (5) The supreme Self is Brahman alone being altogether different from body, etc.
8-9. (6-20) Brahma, Vishnu, Indra, (the god of) Death, the Sun, the Moon, the gods, the demons, men, women, animals, etc.; the immobile the Brahmanas, etc.; are that very Spirit.
10. (21) Neither skin nor blood nor flesh nor bone has caste; To self is caste ascribed through mere usage.
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I will again and again repeat a very simple argument. The advaitaatma is to be known. That is all. Atma is not another. Advaita is not another.
Since, I follow this argument line, adequately supported by teaching of the Guru, why should I pick upon the thousand tattwas? A waste baggage is to be dumped. For me the task is to unravel the advaita atma beneath the many variations of the red/back/white of Prakriti (Pragnya). However, for a person who has to trudge along to decide which tattwa is Supreme and which tattwa to latch onto (for mukti), that kind of search is entirely valid. I have no problem.
Regards
Om
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