Re: The Material Cause...
Originally Posted by
suresh
Namaste Yajvan,
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But if one considers the prakriti to be a reflection and nothing more, we can conclude that the world is asat at all times, with Brahman alone being the sole reality. We can do away with neo-Vedanta type of obfuscation that revolves around inventing new ideas such as 'neither sat nor asat' etc. The world is always false, according to classical advaitins.
Suresh
Namaste Suresh,
Sorry to be intruding. My POV reflects, more or less, what Shri Yajvan has said.
I had felt that you were pointing to a good knowledge, yet, with Brahman alone being the sole reality, there would be no need for a Guru, no student, no learning etc. But the Guru-Shishya is pratayksha truth.
Prakriti cannot be disconnected from Brahman , since if it was so, then the Sentient Brahman would not know the Prakriti. There has to be a knowledge principle that connects these two. Prakriti is of the Sentient Beling alone. One cannot say that Prakriti of 'NOTHING' exists independently. Prakriti (nature or property or characteristics) by its very definition has to be of something.
Prakriti is of two stages: essential nature (Sat-Chit-Ananda), and guna nature (white, red, and black). Effect of the Prakriti of the second stage is the Universe, which if the infinite sentience (Sat-Chit-Ananda) were absent, would not exist and would not be known.
In truth (in my POV), Self-Brahman with its essential nature of Sat-Chit-Ananda is Anadimat.
And I do not think that your statement "The world is always false, according to classical advaitins", is correct understanding.
Regards
Om
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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