Three levels of Reality - Mahabharata

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V Subrahmanian

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Sep 16, 2022, 3:16:46 AM9/16/22
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In the Sanat sujatiya (Fourth Chapter in Shankaracharya's Bhashya edition) here is a verse:

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सदा सदासत्कृतः स्यान्न मृत्युरमृतं कुतः |
सत्यानृते सत्यसमानबन्धने; सतश्च योनिरसतश्चैक एव ॥१९॥
योगिनस्तं प्रपश्यन्ति भगवन्तं सनातनम् ॥१९॥

Bhashya Shankaracharya comments: Both the relatively e real and unreal  have for their bases the supreme reality. That is, the vyavaharika and the pratibhasika reality have their support in the substratum that is the Paramarthika Reality. 

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The Bhashya: 
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 Yogins realize that Supreme reality.


We are reminded of the the Taittiriya Upanishad 2.6.1 statement: सत्यं चानृतं च सत्यमभवत् । the Supreme Reality, Paramarthika Satya, Bramhan, itself became both the the relatively real (vyavaharika satya) and the seemingly real (pratibhasika satya). 

See a detailed article on the Taittiriya passage, citing the bhashya, etc: https://adbhutam.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/paramarthika-vyavaharika-satyam/ 

Om Tat Sat

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