The Advaitic Sat

The Sat admitted by the Advaitins, is the prime base of the tenet of non-dual reality of Brahman. As is generally mentioned, to a certain extent, the word 'real' or 'existent' is not proper for the Advaitic sat, because it is not real like the reality of worldly objects or existent like them. By the

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शर्मा अद्वैत के 'सत्' की विवेचना करते हैं, जो न लौकिक पदार्थों जैसी सत्ता है और न असत्। वे ऋग्वेद, ब्राह्मण, आरण्यक, उपनिषद्, गीता और योगवासिष्ठ में इस शब्द का अनुसरण करते हैं और कहते हैं कि माया के सहारे इसे सिद्धान्त-रूप शंकराचार्य ने ही दिया। Sharma traces the Advaitic sat, which is neither the reality of worldly objects nor sheer non-being. He follows the word through the Ṛgveda, the Brāhmaṇas, Āraṇyakas, Upaniṣads, Gītā and Yogavāsiṣṭha, and argues that Śaṅkara alone gave it doctrinal shape, with māyā, against Buddhist criticism of Upaniṣadic being.

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