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Dear Sri Sadagopan,

Thank you for your lead. I will buy the tome and
perform a study. I have some basic knowledge about
Advaita vedanta and i have some questions as a follow
up:

>  Jivan is an integral part of Brahman/Iswaran. Jivan
> is
>  an amsam or an integral part of Brahman according
> to
>  VisishtAdhvaitham . Jivan is an integral part of
> Brahman and 
>  it (JIvan) is however distinct but inseperable from
> Brahman .

The question, then is, is the jIva as an amSa of the
brahman quantitatively equal to the brahman? How is it
that an amSa of the brahman is not quantitatively
equal to the whole of the brahman, if one assumes that
the brahman is at once subtle and infinite at the same
time?

>  Adhvaitham clings to the belief that Jivan and
> Iswaran 
>  ( Brahman) are one and the same ;  after the
> nescience 
>  surrounding the Jivan is removed , it becomes one
> with Brahman .

I believe there are some flaws in this idea as well.
If the Brahman is quantitatively equal to the atman,
according to Advaita, why is it that the Brahman
becomes as subject of nescience (avidya)? It runs
contrary to upanishadic doctrine that the brahman is
all powerfull.

I do realise that questions from me seem to be
exponentially increasing and a few kilobytes of data
would not be suffecient to knowledge from traditional
learning under acharyas. 

I do hope other members can add to the conversation.

Regards,

Jagan


                
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