@article{DR. PARMITA CHOWDHURY_2021, title={ŚAṀKARA’S APAROKṢĀNUBHŪTI – IS IT PRACTICAL?}, volume={17}, url={https://www.archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/5019}, abstractNote={<p>For Śaṁkara, non-duality or <em>advaita</em> is the only reality and duality is a matter of ignorance or <em>avidyā</em>.&nbsp; The individual self or <em>jīva</em> which is identical with Brahman, because of the superimposition of the limiting adjuncts of mind, body etc., appears to be different. So, as long as we are within <em>avidyā</em> such superimpositions will continue to exist and which creates hindrances in the non-dual perception of the reality. Now, question arises that being within the world of duality, how it is possible to go beyond <em>avidyā</em> and realise the reality of oneness or non-duality. Thus the paper will comprise first of all what Śaṁkara understands by the term <em>aparokṣānubhūti</em>. Moreover, the present study also will try to highlight Śaṁkara’s view on the different antecedent conditions which Śaṁkara considers as pre-requisite for such perception. But the problem may arise in Śaṁkara’s <em>aparokṣānubhūti</em> to show its practicality. Does the role of man is only to go beyond this world of multiplicity and to attain individual salvation? Does he has nothing to do as a man being in this world and help to attain universal salvation i.e., the salvation of others? In this present study, this problem may be tried to solve from the perspective of Vivekananda, who tries to see <em>aparokṣānubhūti</em> from the practical standpoint, as for him <em>aparokṣānubhūti</em> which he termed as ‘transcendent perception’ changes the way of looking at the world of duality without diminishing it and also gives way to universal salvation.</p>}, number={9}, journal={PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology}, author={DR. PARMITA CHOWDHURY}, year={2021}, month={Jan.}, pages={5486 - 5493} }