Vedanta Advaita Sesha www.vedantaadvaita.com 1 Vedanta Advaita Sesha ADVAITA VEDANTA Non-duality, meditation practice, states of consciousness and Vedanta cosmology Commentaries on the DṚG DṚŚYA VIVEKA by ŚAṄKARĀCĀRYA SESHA www.vedantaadvaita.com 2 Vedanta Advaita Sesha Original title: Vedanta Advaita Legal deposit: M. 2630-2005 ISBN: 84-8445-111-9 All rights are reserved by the author. Prohibited, amongst other things, are any commercialization, exploitation, reproduction, processing, distribution or disclosure without prior permission from the author. However, this work may be disseminated freely as long as there is no profit made. www.vedantaadvaita.com 3 Vedanta Advaita Sesha The universe does not change; it is the perceiver who remembers it constantly different. SESHA www.vedantaadvaita.com 4 Vedanta Advaita Sesha Index Introduction ....................................................................................................... .10 Śloka 1 ..................................................................................................... 14 Śloka 2 ..................................................................................................... 21 Śloka 3 ..................................................................................................... 25 Śloka 4 ..................................................................................................... 30 Śloka 5 ..................................................................................................... 33 Śloka 6 ..................................................................................................... 37 Śloka 7 ..................................................................................................... 44 Śloka 8 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Śloka 25 .................................................................................................. 136 www.vedantaadvaita.com 5 Vedanta Advaita Sesha Śloka 26 .................................................................................................. 140 Śloka 27 .................................................................................................. 165 Śloka 28 .................................................................................................. 169 Śloka 29 .................................................................................................. 177 Śloka 30 .................................................................................................. 195 Śloka 31 .................................................................................................. 198 Śloka 32 .................................................................................................. 208 Śloka 33 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Śloka 42 .................................................................................................. 245 Śloka 43-44 ............................................................................................ 246 Śloka 45 .................................................................................................. 249 Śloka 46 .................................................................................................. 252 www.vedantaadvaita.com 6 Vedanta Advaita Sesha Index of tables and figures FIGURES Figure 1 Implicit elements in perception ............................................ 17 Figure 2 States of cognition and Patañjali´s definitions ....................... 23 Figure 3 Scheme for the birth of Cosmic or Individual Reflected Consciousness .................................................................... 51 Figure 4 Uninterrupted cycle of duality ........................................ 86 Figure 5 Individual Consciousness as a reflection of Universal Consciousness .......................................................................... 98 Figure 6 Modalities of objects of knowledge .................................. 109 Figure 7 Development of the universe at Samas़़़t़़i (collective) level, associated with the three great states of Śaṅkara .... 121 Figure 8 Material and Ideal Objects .............................................. 124 Figure 9 Field of Information .......................................................... 148 Figure 10 Field of Information basic to defining the practice of Meditation ................................................................................ 150 Figure 11 Similar modalities of Fields of Information ...................... 152 Figure 12 Non-differentiated Information ..................................... 154 Figure 13 Open field ................................................................. 156 Figure 14 Inner Savikalpa and Nirvikalpa Samādhi ............................ 170 www.vedantaadvaita.com 7 Vedanta Advaita Sesha Figure 15 Outer Savikalpa and Nirvikalpa Samādhi ........................... 170 Figure 16 Perception with and without distance from outer objects ................................................................................. 176 Figure 17 The States of consciousness, kind of field, kind of information and sensory boundary ................................. 199 Figure 18 Kinds of Karma ........................................................... 206 Figure 19 The jīva as reflection .................................................. 212 Figure 20 The three theories about the existence of the jīva ........ 219 TABLES Table 1 Characteristics of the five states of consciousness ....... 19 Table 2 States of cognition and corresponding perception agent ................................................................................. 24 Table 3 Aspects of the Antah़़karan़़a ............................................. 38 Table 4 Cosmologic and Cosmogonic representation ................ 41 Table 5 Relationship between the Mind, Individuality and Individual Consciousness ............................................... 46 Table 6 States of consciousness according to the relationship between the perceiver and the perceived .. 55 Table 7 States of Consciousness according to Gaud़apāda and Govindapāda ...................................................................... 66 Table 8 States of Consciousness according to Patañjali ........... 67 Table 9 States of Consciousness according to the West…. ....... 68 Table 10 Systematisation of States of Consciousness .............. 69 Table 11 States of Consciousness produced by Māyā or Avidyā .............................................................................. 78 Table 12 Evolution of the universe caused by the Factors of Limitation ................................................................. 92 Table 13 Evolution of the universe caused by the states of matter 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