02-10-2005, 04:42 AM
After the last bout of a flurry of posts, I had an overload of information on which I was (and am still) meditating. Meanwhile, while refering to Panchadasi, I found that Nrusimha Uttaratapaniya upanishad mentions that Ishwara and Jeeva are reflection of Brahman on Maya/Avidya. I am posting the relevant link from Panchadasi Chapter Eight (verses 60-64)
It will take me a while to compose anything close to a rebuttal of the Duality concept.
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http://www.celextel.org/ebooks/other_boo...dasi_4.htm
60. The Shruti declares that Jiva and Ishvara are both reflections of Brahman in Maya. They are, however, different from material things in that they are transparent (i.e., revealing) just as a glass jar is different from earthen ones.
61. Though both are products of food, the mind is subtler and purer than the body. Similarly, Jiva and Ishvara are more transparent than the grosser products of Maya.
62. Jiva and Ishvara, because they manifest the power of revealing, must be considered to be endowed with consciousness. For, nothing is difficult for Maya, that is endowed with the power to create all things.
63. When we sleep, our dreams create even Jiva and Ishvara. What wonder is there then that the Great Maya creates them in the waking state ?
64. <b>The Maya creates omniscience and other qualities too in Ishvara. When it can create Ishvara, the receptacle of these qualities, is it difficult to conceive that it can also create these qualities in Him ?</b>
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It will take me a while to compose anything close to a rebuttal of the Duality concept.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Panchadasi Chapter VIII. (Kootastha Deepa)
http://www.celextel.org/ebooks/other_boo...dasi_4.htm
60. The Shruti declares that Jiva and Ishvara are both reflections of Brahman in Maya. They are, however, different from material things in that they are transparent (i.e., revealing) just as a glass jar is different from earthen ones.
61. Though both are products of food, the mind is subtler and purer than the body. Similarly, Jiva and Ishvara are more transparent than the grosser products of Maya.
62. Jiva and Ishvara, because they manifest the power of revealing, must be considered to be endowed with consciousness. For, nothing is difficult for Maya, that is endowed with the power to create all things.
63. When we sleep, our dreams create even Jiva and Ishvara. What wonder is there then that the Great Maya creates them in the waking state ?
64. <b>The Maya creates omniscience and other qualities too in Ishvara. When it can create Ishvara, the receptacle of these qualities, is it difficult to conceive that it can also create these qualities in Him ?</b>
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