adhyasa
अध्यास adhyāsaSuperimposition: laying one thing over another and taking the two for one, as when a coiled rope is seen as a snake. Shankara opens his Brahma Sutra commentary by naming this as our basic error.
Where this term appears
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
He calls it adhyasa , "superimposition." It is what happens when we lay one thing over another and take the two for one.
- Who Was Adi Shankara? Philosophy
Bondage is a case of mistaken identity, a superimposition, adhyasa , of the not-self on the Self.
- What is Vedanta? Philosophy
Shankara's key technical move is adhyasa , superimposition: as a coil of rope in dim light is mistaken for a snake, so the qualities of the not-self are laid over the self and the self over the not-self, and th…