Re: sat & asat
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yajvan
hariḥ oṁ
Sat is Reality, Being , and asat is appearance. The example would be the ocean ( Reality) and the waves ( appearance). praṇām
Namaste yajvan ji,
I could not read the full post and if i am erring because of partial reading, please pardon me.
In the context of Advaita (and sanskrit) asat is that which has no existence at all and which will never have any existence -- such as son of a barren mother. In that sense, asat is also equated with 'unmanifest', but one must be very careful as the 'manifest' is born of the 'unmanifest', so the 'unmanifest to the senses' that only manifests is not asat.
The word for wrong appearance is 'mithya'. For example, the 'manifest' we (the senses) know as 'sat', is mithya - appearance. The example is a rope appearing as a snake and more pertinent: Brahman appearing as Jagat.
Om Namah Shivaya
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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