Pratyabhijna and Shankara’s Advaita (comparative study)
by Ranjni M. | 2013 | 54,094 words
This page relates ‘Maya and Ultimate Reality� of study dealing with Pratyabhijna and Shankara’s Advaita. This thesis presents a comparative analysis of two non-dualistic philosophies, Pratyabhijna from Kashmir and Shankara’s Advaita Vedanta from Kerala, highlighting their socio-cultural backgrounds and philosophical similarities..
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11. and Ultimate Reality
It is already stated that in non-dual philosophies the middle principle like has an unavoidable significance as a linkage between the ultimate reality and the visible world. In both Advaita and ʰٲⲹñ, the functions of are for the same. In both systems the concept of has two aspects one positive and the other negative. The positive aspect is directly connected with the ultimate reality as his creative power for the creation of the world, without which nothing can be created.[1] The negative aspect of , in the form of ignorance, which has the concealing power, deluding power and projecting power, is more connected with the individual self.
In both systems the ultimate reality is beyond the complex of name and form. In Advaita, when the ūٰ speaks of Brahman as cause or through whom the language of the Veda and the manifestation of the cosmos appear, they are strictly speaking through myth and actually intending discourse about Brahman. This Brahman and the cannot detach with each other. So can be explained as the ignorance of knowledge or Brahman. It acts as the veil and the passageway. As the veil, it is the conceptualization of language and the name form complex. As the passageway it is inquiry into Brahman. In this aspect is the measure of the immeasurable. acts as a pointer to Brahman through analogues of world experience in reference to knowledge of Brahman.[2] In ʰٲⲹñ also the and the worldly sufferings created by it prompt the individuals to inquire about the ultimate reality.
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ŚśٲDZ貹Ծṣa, 6.19.