The Importance of Superimposition

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When you become enlightened, it's not a snake, it's a rope. This superimposition has two aspects to it. It's an important way of understanding superimposition. They are called arthadhyasa, jhana dhyasa. In my mind, in my understanding, and say, there is a snake. This is called superimposition in cognition, in my knowledge. But there is something called object Superimposition. See, make it very clear. The object out there, which is actually a rope, is mistaken for another object,. which is a snake, a snake projected in error.

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