Appayya Diksita's Survey of Theories
(Outline of passage from Appayya Diksita's
Siddhantalesasangraha
in Deutsch and van Buitenen,
Sourcebook of Advaita Vedanta, pp. 304-306)
- One soul
- One soul, one body
(dream model)
- One soul, many bodies
- one soul projecting many images
- one soul animating many bodies
- Many souls
- One ignorance
- locus is Brahman
- locus is individual soul (jiva)
- Many ignorances
- collective world: cloth model
- individual worlds: silver model
- Maya world: God produces it
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Class notes for Religion W4620
(Nonduality in Indian and Tibetan Thought),
Fall 2002.
Last updated: Fri Aug 30 20:53:38 EDT 2002
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