What Is Adhijasa?

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Shankaracharya: Adhijasa is an experience, a knowledge. If you just apply it to our rope and snake example, we will see how it fits. So the person who makes a mistake about the snake experiences, has a kind of experience that I am seeing a snake. Now it is parathra, parathra means elsewhere, elsewhere means where there is no snake. He is not seeing a snake in the garden or in the zoo. He is seeing a snake where in the rope where there are no snakes at all. Elsewhere means where the object is not there. Okay. That's it. We will do this section of today's class before the

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