AADYHAASA of Shri Adi Shankara Padachariyal

"Brahma satyam jagat mithya jivoo brahmaiva naa parah iti vedanta dindimahah" is the startling line in sariraka mimamsa adhyasa bhashya of shri Adi shankara Bagavat Padar"Brahmam is the sole reality the world of plurality is false(illusory) and jiva is identical with Brahmam. Adi Shankara a kevaladvaitha has to explain his stance of attributeless Brahmam as the only reality and so he uses Vivartha Vada to solve the contradiction between theory and observation. "Ajaya manoo Bhahudavijayathe tasya Dhirah parijananthi yonimm" as stated in vedas means the unborn takes many births and only learned understand the reason. Shankara says Brahmam is not an object of knowledge for whatever is revealed by knowledge is bound by space and time and has attributes. Brahmam is neither subject nor object of activities like thinking etc. All self consciousness is finally false as Brahmam cannot be grasped by consciousness because Brahmam is not an object of sense perception. because of endless Ignorance{ its not a negative entity like lack of knowledge but false knowledge} the Brahmam appears to an object and falsely identifies itself with Upadis or adjuncts. Maya which makes the one appear many cannot be said to be really related with Brahmam for Brahmam is said to be ever pure at the same time Maya cannot be said to be unreal for it is experienced in our activities. Thus it is "anirvachineeya" or inexplicable . Superimposition requires the pre-existence of a substratum and a superimposing object. Also the knowledge of superimposing object is necessary as in the case of snake-rope. this would make that knowledge real.So what ever we try we cant explain superimposition"vacham agocharam" admits Sri Shankara. For Brahmam to be substratum of apparent superimposition it has to be an object. Brahmam can appear like an object only after superimpostion and stretching this explainition would lead to infinite regress and Adi Shankara uses an analogy to explain why superimposition cannot be logically explained. He says "Bijaankura Nyaya" can explain this. Liberation is only through the Knowledge that Brahmam is the only truth. Even Eshwara is a Brahmam as conditioned with Upadis-Saguna Brahmam{ only Narayana as accepted by Shankara in BRHADAARANYAKA upanishad Bhashya and Geeta Bhashya-"VAASUDEVAAKYAM PARAM BRAHMA ITI NI SHREYAS PRAYOJANAM.."} is a close reading of the truth but the ultimate truth is attributeless Brahmam......................{to be continued..............}