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Bhedabhedavada, Advaita Vedanta & Svatantryavada

☀️THE INFLUENCE OF VEDANTA ON INDIAN THOUGHT HAS BEEN PROFOUND. ALTHOUGH THE PREPONDERANCE OF TEXTS BY ADVAITA SCHOLARS HAS IN THE WEST GIVEN RISE TO THE ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION THAT VEDANTA MEANS ADVAITA THE NON-DUALISTIC ADVAITA IS

BUT ONE OF MANY VEDANTA SCHOOLS. BRITANNICA-MATT STEFON

☀️ BHEDABHEDA -

(MONIER-WILLIAMS)

DISUNION AND UNION

DUALISM AND NON-DUALISM

☀️ BHEDABHEDA, SANSKRIT BHEDÄBHEDA ("IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE") AN IMPORTANT BRANCH OF VEDANTA, A SYSTEM OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY. ITS PRINCIPAL AUTHOR WAS BHASKARA, PROBABLY A YOUNGER CONTEMPORARY OF THE GREAT 8TH-CENTURY-CE THINKER SHANKARA OF THE ADVAITA (NONDUALIST) SCHOOL. THE MAINSTAY OF BHASKARA'S PHILOSOPHY WAS THE CONVICTION THAT ACTS AND KNOWLEDGE ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE BUT, RATHER, MUTUALLY REINFORCING.

IN CONTRAST, SHANKARA HELD THAT ULTIMATELY ONLY TOTAL RESIGNATION AND WITHDRAWAL FROM ACTS ARE NECESSARY TO ATTAIN RELEASE (MOKSHA) FROM REBIRTH (SAMSARA). AGAINST THAT VIEW, BHASKARA UPHELD THE DOCTRINE OF THE "CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF ACTS AND KNOWLEDGE" BRITANNICA

☀️SCHOLARS SUCH AS HAJIME NAKAMURA AND PAUL HACKER STATE THAT ADI SHANKARA DOES NOT ADVOCATE VIVARTAVADA AND THAT HIS EXPLANATIONS ARE "REMOTE FROM ANY CONNOTATION OF ILLUSION." ACCORDING TO THESE SCHOLARS. IT WAS THE 13TH CENTURY SCHOLAR PRAKASATMAN WHO GAVE A

DEFINITION TO VIVARTA AND IT IS PRAKASATMAN'S THEORY THAT IS SOMETIMES MISUNDERSTOOD AS ADI

SHANKARA'S POSITION.

ANDREW NICHOLSON CONCURS WITH HACKER AND OTHER SCHOLARS, ADDING THAT THE VIVARTA-VADA ISN'T SHANKARA'S THEORY THAT SHANKARA'S IDEAS APPEAR CLOSER TO PARINAMA-VADA, AND THAT THE VIVARTA EXPLANATION LIKELY EMERGED GRADUALLY IN ADVAITA SUBSCHOOL LATER. WIKIPEDIA

☀️ SVATANTRYAVADA

THE PRATYABHIJNA PHILOSOPHY OF SOMANANDA

REFUTES THE ARAMBHVADA (THE 'REALISTIC VIEW' OF THE NYAYA-VAISESIKA), THE PARINAMAVADA (THE THEORY OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE SANKHYA-YOGA AND THE VIVARTAVADA OF THE THEORY OF THE MANIFESTATION OF THE ADVAITA), BY POSTULATING THE THEORY OF SVATANTRYAVADA (THE 'UNIVERSAL VOLUNTARISM WHICH STATES THAT IT IS DUE TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD'S WILL THAT EFFECT EVOLVES FROM CAUSE

WIKIPEDIA

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Svatantrya means liberty, autonomy, spontaneity. There are inner worlds and outer worlds… In stillness we become acquainted with our divine self. We start to glimpse and discern our patterns. We begin to grasp an understanding of our world. We start to co-create a new life grounded in our inner core. A journey into ancient traditions held secret by holy men. A journey of stillness and movement, of integration and openness, of life force and peaceful surrender. Moving through our body into the essence of our being. By creating freedom in our body, freedom in our mind, life force moves freely in our being and our world becomes alive!

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Svātantrya (from the Sanskrit sva meaning self and tantram meaning dependence ‘self-dependency’, or ‘free will’) is the Kashmiri Shaivite concept of divine sovereignty. Svātantrya is described as an energy that emanates from the Supreme (Paramaśiva), a wave of motion inside consciousness (spanda) that acts as the fundament of the world, or in another view, the original word (logos, pārāvak). It does not use any external instrument as it itself is the first stage of creation. In antithesis with the Vedantic concept of Brahman, which is a mere conscious witness without effective power, being inflicted with the illusion (or maya) of the world by an external force. In its acception of divine sovereignty, svātantrya is described as an absolute power of action, or, absolute power of freedom.This power arises from the mirror-like ability of the supreme consciousness (caitanya) to contain images (vimarśa) - the whole universe being a mere image shining inside this unique god-consciousness. The prakāśa-vimarśa theory affirms the world is based on two principles: the self shining conscious light (prakāśa) and its ability to contain a reflection of itself and of the creation (vimarśa).To reflect itself is to know absolute bliss (ānanda) - thus, free will (svātantrya), conscious reflection (vimarśa) and bliss (ānanda) are three concepts describing the same reality. Bliss (ānanda) is the internal state of consciousness, its natural state. The same is true of svātantrya: it too is a fundamental quality of the subject. Svātantrya is the first stage of creation, an undifferentiated energy, or, looking from bottom up, we could also say that it is the force that unifies all the energies of creation.The first creation of svātantrya is the energy of will (icchā śakti). Then come the energies of knowledge (jñāna śakti) and action (kriyā śakti) and together with the energy of consciousness (cit śakti) and the energy of bliss (ānanda śakti) they form the supreme pentad of creation, the so-called “pure creation”

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