With this realization, when you live life in this world, now you are free of the adhyasana. You realize I am sachidha on and on. And yet the world will keep on appearing. No longer are you subject to that superimposition. After knowing the movie to be a movie, the movie will not stop. Need not stop. You can enjoy the movie. This world of appearance does not increase you by the least bit. It does not impinge upon your glory, does not reduce you or harm you at all. Appearance never affects reality. The answer is yes and no. Yes, in the sense that you realize there is no universe, only Brah
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
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