vyavaharika
व्यावहारिक vyāvahārikaThe empirical or transactional level of reality: the ordinary shared world, fully real for all practical purposes though not ultimately real, and so distinguished from the paramarthika.
Where this term appears
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
The vyavaharika , the empirical or transactional level, is the ordinary shared world: tables, planets, other people, the laws of physics, your tax bill.
- Who Was Adi Shankara? Philosophy
…-seeming appearance, maya , true at the everyday level Shankara calls vyavaharika and dissolved at the absolute level, paramarthika .
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
The Advaita reading treats the whole map as vyāvahārika , true at the everyday level and dissolving under analysis.
- What is Maya? The World as Appearance Essentials
The middle level is vyavaharika , the practical or empirical reality, the level of the ordinary shared world: bodies, objects, cause and effect, the world we all wake up into and transact within.
- Advaita, Vishishtadvaita, Dvaita: The Three Vedantas Philosophy
Śaṅkara therefore distinguishes two levels of truth: the vyāvahārika , the empirical level where the world and its plurality are perfectly valid and you should stop at red lights; and the pāramārthika , the abs…
- What is Vedanta? Philosophy
It is vyavaharika , empirically real: the solid world we wake into and transact in, wholly reliable for as long as it lasts, holding good right up until liberating knowledge dawns.
- What holds the charge Treatise
…f separate selves and things is taken as real, which is to say at the vyavaharika level, the everyday standpoint the treatise's final chapter will define against its opposite.
- What remains Treatise
There is the vyavaharika , the everyday, transactional standpoint, and from within it the whole account is perfectly real: deeds ripen, debts bind, the wheel turns, and everything this treatise has described op…