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'''Drishti-srishti-vada ''' ([[Sanskrit]]: दृष्टिसृष्टिवाद) or 'the doctrine of creation through perception', is an offshoot of [[Advaita Vedanta]], which doctrine maintains that the perceived phenomenal world comes into existence only in the process of man's observation of the world which is seen as a world of his own mental construction; having no objective reality, it exists only in his mind.<ref>{{cite book|title=The First Spring Part 2|author=Abraham Eraly|publisher=Penguin|page=124|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=_KFQAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT124&dq=Drishtisrishtivada&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mmySVMTlHciauQStkIGYAg&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Drishtisrishtivada&f=false }}</ref> Thus, mind is the cause of the universe and not the subtle cosmic elements; mind which is consciousness creates the world. <ref>{{cite book|title=The Yoga Vasishta|author=K.N.S.ubramanian|publisher=Sura Books|page=87|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tq9TSJGtemsC&pg=PA87&dq=Drishtisrishtivada&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mmySVMTlHciauQStkIGYAg&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Drishtisrishtivada&f=false }}</ref> This doctrine is aligned with the doctrine of ''Ajatavada'', that of 'non-causality'.<ref>{{cite book|title=Exopolitics: Stargate to a New Reality|author=P.L.Harris|publisher=Authorhouse|page=xvii|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3VayXgbup4sC&pg=PR17&dq=Drishtisrishtivada&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mmySVMTlHciauQStkIGYAg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Drishtisrishtivada&f=false }}</ref>

[[Adi Shankara|Shankara]] did not see subjectivism as a natural consequence of [[Maya (illusion)|Mayavada]], but much later a kind of subjective idealism was introduced by Prakasananda.<ref>{{cite book|title=Krishna|author=Edwin F. Bryant|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=325|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=0z02cZe8PU8C&pg=PA325&dq=Drishtisrishtivada&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mmySVMTlHciauQStkIGYAg&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Drishtisrishtivada&f=false }}</ref> Prakasananda propounded his doctrine of ''Drishti-srishti-vada'' in his work titled, ''Siddhanta-Muktavali'', on which Nana Dikshita had written a commentary called ''Siddhanta-pradipika''. In so doing he denied the objective character of [[Maya (illusion)|maya]]. According to him all phenomena are subjective or imagined, and exist so long as are perceived.<ref>{{cite web|title=Preceptors of Advaita – Prakasananda|publisher=Kamakoti.org|url= http://www.kamakoti.org/kamakoti/articles/Preceptors%20of%20Advaita%20-%2035.html }}</ref> In this context, [[Madhusūdana Sarasvatī|Madhusudana]] in his ''Siddhanta-bindu'' explains that [[Ishvara]] is Pure consciousness [[Brahman]] afflicted by nescience, and the reflection of consciousness in nescience is the [[jiva]] who is himself thus the material and efficient cause of the universe through his own nescience.<ref>{{cite web|title= Drishti-srishti-vada|url= http://www.indiadivine.org/content/topic/1393790-drishti-srishti-vada/ }}</ref>

[[Ramana Maharishi]] termed this concept as the 'doctrine of simultaneous creation' or as the 'theory of false appearance', which theory maintains that all objects depend for their apparent existence upon the seer; that the world only exists when it is perceived, i.e. with the appearance of I-thought.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ramana Maharishi on Creation|url= http://www.kheper.net/topics/Vedanta/Ramana_on_creation.html }}</ref>
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>Sharathalpy at 16:39, 27 June 2020