Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam (Study)
by Sadhu Gyanananddas | 2021 | 123,778 words
This page relates 鈥業nsentiency and Sentiency鈥� of the study on the Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam in Light of Swaminarayan Vachanamrut (Vacanamrita). His 18th-century teachings belong to Vedanta philosophy and were compiled as the Vacanamrita, revolving around the five ontological entities of Jiva, Ishvara, Maya, Aksharabrahman, and Parabrahman. Roughly 200 years later, Bhadreshdas composed a commentary (Bhasya) correlating the principles of Vachanamrut.
3.3. Insentiency and Sentiency
惭腻测腻 is fundamentally and eternally material. It is insentient (箩补岣峚), meaning it is without consciousness. It is not sentient (肠别迟补苍腻) like Parabrahman, Ak峁rabrahman, 墨艣惫补谤补蝉, and 箩墨惫补蝉 and entirely different from them. moreover, countless sentient beings (箩墨惫补蝉 and 墨艣惫补谤补蝉) lie dormant within 尘腻测腻, therefore the term 箩补诲补肠颈诲腻迟尘颈办腻225 is used for 尘腻测腻.
The 叠丑腻峁补办腻谤补 echoes this fact in other words:
鈥�箩墨惫别艣惫补谤腻迟尘腻苍耻濒颈辫迟腻苍颈...pralay膩vasthay膩mapi pral墨nabh膩vagat膩ni鈥� (叠谤补丑尘补蝉奴迟谤补 2/1/36, p.186)
鈥�闯墨惫补蝉 and 墨艣惫补谤补蝉 and their karmas are preserved in 尘腻测腻 even after final dissolution.鈥�
All elements, physical and psychical evolve from 尘腻测腻-辫谤补办峁泃颈. They all are concrete and qualified. 惭腻测腻-辫谤补办峁泃颈 as such is an unconscious inert principle, nevertheless because of the entry of 补苍迟补谤测腻尘颈-峁办迟颈 in it through the medium of a highly conscious principle called 惭补丑腻辫耻谤耻峁, it as if becomes conscious and functions like a sentient.