[Advaita-l] Causal Body

[Srikrishna Ghadiyaram]

--- Jay Nelamangala <jay at r-c-i.com> wrote:
> Sri sadAnanda,
> 
> >Krishna - My request to you is to keep following
> the discussion between
> >Jay and myself and enter when you find there is
> misrepresentation of
> >dwaita position.  Jay wants to get to the bottom of
> this by his series
> >of adhyaasa theories finding fault with the
> advaitic concept. I have no
> >problem if something is wrong in Advaita, but
> before one ventures into
> >the criticism of a well established theory, one
> should understand it
> >correctly too.
> 
> I assume Krishna is  Nomadeva Sharma.
> My request to you is to let NomadEva ask these
> relevant questions.
> That is what this email list is all about.  Let us
> not kill that spirit.
> 
> Sri Sharma  has asked you some very valid questions
> which you need to
> answer.
> 
> >Object has the qualities that do not mean object is
> the same as
> >qualities? One is an attribute and the other is
> substantive. The
> >relation between the two as Jay has recognized is
> assumed. There is a
> >fundamental problem involved in perception of the
> substantive? That is
> >the reason why epistemology is intimately connected
> to ontology in our
> >philosophies.
> 
> That brings us to the doctrine of vishEsha.
> 
> You are very correct when you say pramANa-pramEya
> are intimately
> connected.
> 
> The character of the object of pratyaksha is the
> same as that of the objects
> of
> other pramANas.  Every instance of pratyaksha
> reveals its object as "This is
> so and so".
> Here "so-and-so" refers to the property of the
> object which is revealed as
> "This" as
> a substantive.  So, the object of pratyaksha is a
> substantive qualified by a
> property.
> No pratyakhsa reveals a property independently of
> the substantive,  or a
> substantive independently of property.  The object
> of pratyaksha under all
> circumstances
> is a qualified entity or "vishishta vastu".
> 
> What is the relation between a substantive and its
> property?
> Let us take a piece of white cloth, for instance. 
> Cloth is substance and
> whiteness its
> property.  But they are not different.  Only
> NyAya-vaishEshikas think they
> are
> different.  But whiteness itself is not cloth
> either.  So they are given as
> different.
> This suggests there is a peculiarity in them. This
> peculiarity is called
> vishEsha.
> It is this peculiarity enables us to talk and think
> as if the two they are
> different.
> This peculiarity is not the same as difference.
> 
> "abhEdE bhEdakAree vishEshaha" - vishEsha is that
> which shows difference
> where there is none.  The attributes are identical
> with the substance.  It
> is vishEsha
> that causes the idea of difference in an identical
> thing.  So, vishEsha is
> the core
> of reality.   Everything is what it is by means of
> vishEsha.  Owing to its
> presence
> in the thing, the thing is said to have many
> aspects, properties, and so on.
> To explain as many properties, there must be as many
> vishEshas in the same
> thing.
> That does not mean adding fresh properties to it. 
> The vishEshas are those
> that
> explain the presence of the properties of the thing
> without making them
> different
> from it.  The fact that they are, is the necessary
> implication of the fact
> that a thing is
> qualified.  So they maintain themselves.  To try to
> explain by means of
> other
> vishEshas is to ignore the very starting point.
> 
> The acceptance of peculiarity (vishEsha) is
> inevitable even for advaita,
> though
> advaita ignores it.  Advaita regards Brahman as
> partless.  This implies that
> partlessness is a property of It.   It is akhanda.  
> So partlessness is not
> different
> from it.  Then the question is, "how can there be
> the thought that
> partlessness
> is a property of Brahman? "
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> want to unsubscribe or change your options? See:
>
http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/advaita-l
> Need assistance? Contact:
> listmaster at advaita-vedanta.org


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).
http://calendar.yahoo.com