[Advaita-l] Sastra's Ability To Remove Ignorance

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms 
Hare Krishna 

No, as mentioned, even shAstra-s for that matter,  quite frankly admits 
that it cannot teach brahman positively as such and such a thing...yato 
vAcho nivartante aprApya manasa saha,  na tatra chakshurgacchati, na 
vAggachati nO manaH, kO addhA veda ka iha pravOchat, kuta AjAtA kuta iyaM 
visrushtiH??  See, shAstra here expressing its inability to show us 
brahman as an objective reality.  So, shAstra's scope ends till the 
dispelling of ajnAna.  since Atman is not an adventitious thing, no 
pramANa is required to 'show' this to us.   

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!! 
bhaskar 



From:   rajaramvenk at gmail.com
To:     Bhaskar YR/BAN/INABB/ABB at ABB, "A discussion group for Advaita 
Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Date:   06/18/2012 02:03 PM
Subject:        Re: [Advaita-l] Sastra's Ability To Remove Ignorance



Yes - hence my question. If you have to teach me that a clay pot doesn't 
shine, you have to first know what a clay pot looks like. How can the 
sastras have a positive knowledge of brahman to negate non-brahman? 
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From: Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> 
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:55:35 +0530
To: <rajaramvenk at gmail.com>; A discussion group for Advaita 
Vedanta<advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Sastra's Ability To Remove Ignorance

My question is how can sastras have a positive knowledge of Brahman so 
that they can teach us what is and not Brahman? 

praNAms 
Hare Krishna 

shAstra does not teach brahman as such & such a thing!!  it only removes 
the ignorance that jeeva has on brahman due to avidyA.  shAstra just 
removes the avidyA and as soon as this avidyA goes self-evident Atman 
shines on its own. 

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!! 
bhaskar