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Ishvaratva in Sanskrit language is an abstract noun meaning 'godhood',[1] it also means divinity.[2]
Purushottama (the Lord) conceals and also manifests the qualities at His will, He conceals his qualities like Ananda ('bliss') and Ishvaratva ('Lordship') in the Jivas ('Individual Souls') and also conceals His quality of Consciousness in this material world.[3]
The
Ishvaratva is only from the standpoint of Jivatva. Both, Ishvaratva and
Self-luminosity means being directly cognizable without dependence on anything else; and being different from that is hetu ('proximal or concomitant cause'). The assumed difference between Brahman that is cognized and the Brahman that cognizes is imaginary (kalpanika) because in reality there is no difference. The assumed difference between Brahman on the one hand and Jiva and Ishvara on the other is not based on luminosity but on other dharmas (jivatva and ishvaratva) (Advaita-siddhi 22-23).[6]
Ishvaratva is due to the
The sage of the Mandukya Upanishad partitioning the symbol Aum in three different morae adds a fourth mora-less part corresponding to which there are three different states of consciousness, corresponding to which, again, are different kinds of soul and posits "the four states of consciousness – wakefulness, the dream, sleep and a fourth name-less state of consciousness (turiya) while teaching that there is an aspect of the Godhead corresponding to these states of consciousness, the last alone being ultimately real. The Absolute of philosophy surpasses even such a theological conception as that of God."[8] It is only to those who regard the Universal Being as immanent in their own Selves, to them belongs eternal happiness, to no one else (Shvetashvatara Upanishad VI.12).
References
- ^ Samuel Henry Kellogg (1876). A Grammar of the Hindi Language. Printed at the Am. Pres. Mission Press and sold by Thacker, Spink, Calcutta. p. 54.
Ishvaratva.
- ^ Brahmachari Rewachand Animananda (1949). The Blade: Life & work of Brahmabandhab Upadhyay. Roy & Son. p. ix.
- ^ Prajanananda (1973). Schools of Indian Philosophical Thought. Firma K. l. Mukhopadhyay 1973. p. 253.
- ^ Kaulacharya Satyananda (1918). Isha Upanishat. p. 5.
- ISBN 978-8172764203.
- ^ Madhusudana Saraswati. Advaita-siddhi (PDF).
- ^ Sankaracarya. Brahma Sutra Bhasya. Advaita Ashrama. pp. 326–335. Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ R.D.Ranade (1926). A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. p. 23.
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