Request: Advaita Question

Posted By Pradip Gangopadhyay (pradip@lism.usc.edu)
Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:46:25 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: REQUEST : Advaita Question

Ram Gopalaswamy (tg@etsd.ml.com ) wrote:

>The words "nirGuna" and "Ananda" sound contradictory in the following
>Adavaitic cliche statements.

>(1) "nirGuna Brahman is the Supreme Reality"
^^^^^^^
>(2) "Brahman is Sat-Cit-Ananda"
^^^^^^

>Could someone explain with quotations from the Sruti ?

Ananda is not an attribute of Brahman in Advaita Vedanta. Brahman is Ananda
itself. It is not that nirguna Brahman becomes blissful but nirguna Brahman is
bliss itself. So there is no conflict between Brahman being nirguna and
Brahman being Satcidananda.

Regards

Pradip

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