The Vedanta Siddhantamuktāvali / with English translation and notes by Arthur Venis.

  • Prakāśānanda, active 16th century.
Date:
1898
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Credit: The Vedanta Siddhantamuktāvali / with English translation and notes by Arthur Venis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    g^ggi §ng i gra f^g ^i<5 T§^'i^ rg^^T^gfa: ii y ii afigg^’?i53iwiwifw^i's)^ 3rf ^g^sagirw s?i- g Fi^sgftig I ajgjiifTi^i gis^wfijaarg >0 « g^aitflvrHig i gg 'gi?=w^ijgigt%aa?^ esa WH Fwgiisigfgig g ©^=aaiRTi^T g 'SHgaRs^^wg n^is^i’^fagargi^ ^gs^jwawg flreuiargig ?i^ gis^HTsigaorgm 'gsg^is'sisi^qicqig- gJian; 1 ^gaH^sr^g^a ' 6. With regard to the above views some may ask,— Do the words jiva and Brahman denote one substance or two ? One, you say ? To this I agree. The Vedantin of § 4 is refuted by an o ^ri opponent who adopts for the time being 1 WO SUbstanceS . 11160 yOUf 16- the rigoio^us Vedanta of our author, (,0 ^ , j- J,];ojjis,u gc. Brahman is jiva and Brahman are really one and the v ’ ^ ^ same though falsely imagined through ^he Sole Substance ) is ilivalidat- Nescience to be distinct. ed...V. Is only the Self denoted by both words jiva and Brahman? Or does the word jiva denote the Self, and the word Brahman denote something else? If both words denote the Self, how can the Self not be an object for Nescience? For by the word Brah¬ man (you say) the Self is intended ( and Brabman you hold to be an object for Nescience, cf. v. 3). Against this you may argue that if the Self were au object for Nescience, it could not shine forth as being involved in darkness (Nescience), just as an earthen pot, involved in darkness, is not visible. Not so. For only in its character of the sole Reality and supreme Bliss is the Self an object for Nescience, since it is only to the Self as Intelligence that the character of shining forth belongs. And the Self as Intelligence cannot be an object for Nescience, for if this were possible, the existence of Nescience could not be proved (for, if Nescience involved the Self, there would be no witness of NcvSci-