The Importance of Superimposition in Advaita Vedanta

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Shankaracharya explains it in his Vahasya or commentary on the Brahma sutras. Adhyasa is Sanskrit word meaning superimposition. This is, philosophically speaking, this is central conception in Advaita Vedanta. By knowledge of your reality, you become free. And the world is Maya. You are already Brahman. We have come across this throughout our studies of Advait a Vedanta. The old snake and the rope keep coming across ignorance as the problem. Knowledge is the solution. If that that dead, what Shankaracharya wants to say here, if this is true, then only all of this makes sense.

Adhyasa Bhashya is Adi Shankara’s introduction to the Brahma Sutras. Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a brief overview of this commentary, over three sessions. Reference material for this series: - Adhyasa Bhashya in Sanskrit: https://arshavidyacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Swamini-Svatmavidya/collateral/Adhyasa-Bhashya.pdf - Swami Gambhirananda's translation: preamble in chapter 1, section 1 of https://a.co/d/hEj8iQr - Translation of the lectures of Dr. Mani Dravid Sastri: https://sanskritdocuments.org/sites/snsastri/adhyasabhashya.pdf ► To support the Vedanta Society of New York: www.vedantany.org/donate