Friday, November 15, 2019

World is illusory

Sri Shankar Parashtekar writes:
I would be grateful if someone can explain the detailed meaning of the following:
Ref. Vivekachudamani
Verse#226/228 (check)
"Starting with.. Yadidam sakalam vishvam ..."
My concern is to know thoroughly the meaning of the last word:
"Pratyastaasheshabhaavanaadosham ll"
My reply: 
Take a clay-pot.  It is a pot now.  But in reality it is clay only.  When the claypot is broken it becomes nothing but clay.  But even when it has the status of a clay-pot what is the objection in saying it is nothing but clay?  This is the basic principle of this shloka Whatever is by ignorance appearing as this multifarious objects in the universe and world around us, all that is brahman even when we 'see' it as something else due to the defects in our imagination, which defects are our own nature.  'pratyasthaseshha-bhAvanA-dosham' means
Pratyastaaseshha : without any iota of any balance or remains
bhAvanAdoshhaM : the defect of our imagination.
Meaning: What appears to us is brahman only.  There is no question of any rider to this statement. The whole of what appears to us, without exception is brahman ! In seeing it as brahman, no trace of any of the defects of our imagination should remain. A brahma-jnAni sees it that way.!!!

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