
Adhyasa Bhashya 2 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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The Importance of Superimposition in Advaita Vedanta
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.
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