[Advaita-l] Attributes and upadhis

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If I am not mistaken, Sri LalitAlAlitaH had relied on the Tarka Samgraha 
for his etymological explanations of the akhanDaakaara vRtti.  Does 
Advaita subscribe to the Tarka Samgraha, a Nyaaya-Vaisheshika text, in 
such matters? Sadaji, please correct me if I am wrong, but Advaita only 
borrows concepts regarding anumAna from the Nyaayikas.

Therefore, unless Sri LalitAlAlitaH has any other pramAnas for his 
theory, I am unsure how much credence can be paid to the etymology of 
akhandaakaara as referring to the attributeless nature of any object.  
In fact, is there any pramANa that says that the akhanDaakaara vRtti 
refers to objects at all?

Over to you,  Sri LalitAlAlitaH!

Anil Gidwani

On 10-Jul-2015 9:50 PM, advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org via 
advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org wrote:
> namastE. praNaams to all learned-seniors. praNaams to Sri Anand-ji  &  Sri Sadananda-ji.
> Let me continue along the same line of thinking as presented in my previous emails/posts:
> Earlier, i had mentioned that the etymological derivations in the term "akhanDa-AkAra-vRtti" must necessarily be similar to that in the terms "ghaTa-AkAra-vRtti" and "paTa-AkAra-vRtti" . . .
> Naturally, any special etymological derivation for one that is quite different from the rest would require some specific explanation & justification.
> That is, just as the prefixes "ghaTa-" and "paTa-" refer to the corresponding ghaTa-object and paTa-object being revealed by the vRtti, the prefix "akhanDa-" must also refer to the akhanDa-object/vastu being revealed by the corresponding -vRtti.
> Further, the qualifier -AkAra- qualifies the -vRtti with the very same qualities/attributes of the object that gets reflected in the antahkaraNa as that -vRtti; that is, in other words, this -vRtti is a true-reflection in the antahkaraNa of that whatever object-with-its-attributes that is being objectified.
> Then a question may arise as to what qualities/attributes correspond to the case of akhanDa-AkAra.
> Yes, the one-and-only-one-singularly-unique-quality/attribute of that akhanDa-vastu is that it is amenable to being revealed by the corresponding antahkaraNa-vRtti by forming a true-reflection of itSelf in the nirmala-antahkaraNa as the akhanDa-AkAra-vRtti.
> Now, i remember that Sri LalitAlAlitaH had expressed a different viewpoint, however. According to what he mentioned in his emails/posts, although the prefixes ghaTa- and paTa- refer to the corresponding object-with-attributes; the prefix akhanDa- has a different meaning - it refers to the attributeless nature of whatever object is being revealed by the akhanDa-AkAra-vRtti.  So if ghaTa object is being revealed by the akhanDa-AkAra-vRtti then the prefix akhanDa- there refers to the attributeless ghaTa-object that gets revealed thereby; similarly an attributeless paTa-object or attributeless dEvadattaH etc.  Also, he defines the qualifier -AkAra- as meaning the yOgyatA or capacity or ability of the vRtti to dispel the ajnAna of the object being revealed . . .
> Anyway, i do not know how convincing can these explanations be.
> Keshava PRASAD HalemanemOkShakaamaarthadharmahjanmanaa jaayatE jantuḥ |  samskaaraat hi bhavEt dvijaḥ ||  vEda-paaThaat bhavEt vipra |  brahma jnaanaat hi braahmaNah ||
>
>
>       On Friday, 10 July 2015 7:09 PM, Keshava PRASAD Halemane <k_prasad_h at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>     
>
>   namastE. praNaams to all learned-seniors. praNaams to Sri Anand-ji  &  Sri Sadananda ji.
> Let me share my understanding:
> I tried but i am unable to copy-paste [from that page-50 of that pdf ebook that Sri Anand-ji shared recently] so let me rewrite it here in roman alphabets -  . . . 2. kim akhanDArtham | aparyAyaSabdAnAm padavRttismArita atirikta agOcara pramAjanakatvam | (664)  . . . The English translation say -  . . . 2. Impartite cognition is the character of generating valid cognition produced by words which are not synonymous and are not indicative of anything other than the onesuggested by the vritti of the word. . . . Note that there is no mention as to whether it is with the attributes or without the attributes. [if it is somewhere else, i might have missed it] The issue being taken up there is not of whether 'with' or 'without' the attributes. The qualifier "akhanDa-" is qualifying the "-artha", that it is the "clear-&-unambiguous" nature of the meaning that is conveyed by the word/sentence. There is no mention of the nature of the -vRtti, like the -AkAra- of -vRtti [which may refer to a reflection of the -AkAra- of the object being objectified in the antahkaraNa as a -vRtti] etc.  as for example in the terms ghaTa-AkAra-vRtti, paTa-AkAra-vRtti, . . . akhanDa-AkAra-vRtti.
> Keshava PRASAD HalemanemOkShakaamaarthadharmahjanmanaa jaayatE jantuḥ |  samskaaraat hi bhavEt dvijaḥ ||  vEda-paaThaat bhavEt vipra |  brahma jnaanaat hi braahmaNah ||
>
>
>       On Friday, 10 July 2015 6:19 PM, kuntimaddi sadananda <kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com> wrote:
>     
>
>   Keshava Prasad - PraNams.
>
> If I understand correctly akhaarthataa or akhandaartatva - in the in context of soyam devadatta involves samanaadhikaraNa - where in the present case it is badhaayam samaanadhikaraNa, where one unitary meaning for Devadatta is arrived after dropping contradictory qualifications while retaining the common ones.
>
> Akhandaakaara vRititi involves from your description the oneness that pervades the jiiva brahman ikyam vRitti jnaanam as Swami Paramarthanandaji explained. Originally I thought it signifies the result while Swamiji clarified the jnaana vRitti prakriaya itself.
>
> I am just stating the words the way I understand.
>
> Hari Om!
> Sadananda
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 7/10/15, Keshava PRASAD Halemane via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>   Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Attributes and upadhis
>   To: "Srirudra" <srirudra at gmail.com>, "Anand Hudli" <ahudli at gmail.com>, "Kuntimaddi Sadananda" <kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com>, "A. Discussion Group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>   Date: Friday, July 10, 2015, 8:03 AM
>   
>   namastE. praNaams to all
>   learned-seniors. praNaams to Sri Anand-ji; SriRudra (Sri R.
>   Krishnamoorthy) ji  &  Sri Sadananda ji.
>   To repeat, the question that i posed earlier was - Q: How
>   is it that the example - "this is that dEvadattaH" - an
>   example for akhanDAkAra-vRtti [niShprakAraka-vRtti] ?
>   
>   Now, after quite a bit of searching around, and following
>   the advice of Sri Anand ji (to read page-50 of the ebook
>   that he shared earlier) i found that the term used there is
>   indeed not akhanDAkAra-vRtti [niShprakAraka-vRtti] but
>   rather the  "akhanDArthatva"/"akhanDArthataa"  of that
>   statement  "this is that dEvadattaH".  Of course, the two
>   must be quite different! One is "akhanDArthatva" associated
>   with a word/sentence intending to convey some knowledge;
>   while the other is "akhanDAkAratva" associated with a vRtti
>   revealing whatever it reveals.
>   As per my understanding [i have always been maintaining the
>   same stance] that example - "this is that dEvadattaH" -
>   cannot be an example for akhanDAkAra-vRtti
>   [niShprakAraka-vRtti] - but  now i have also learnt that
>    it is indeed an example for "akhanDArthatva" associated
>   with that sentence [as i discover now from reading page-50
>   of that ebook, following the advice of Sri Anand-ji] !
>   Many other points raised in the prolonged discussions
>   associated with this and many other threads having the term
>   "akhanDAkara-vRtti" etc in the subject-line, are all
>   centered around and arising from this example, to a great
>   extent, as far as i understood them.  This i feel is the
>   one major difference in the viewpoints held by me and that
>   expressed by Sri LalitAlAlitaH [of course, it is a different
>   matter that he never addressed my questions directly nor
>   clarified any details with appropriate references /
>   citations to original texts of our SAstras - which i
>   sincerely expect from the learned-seniors]!
>   Keshava PRASAD HalemanemOkShakaamaarthadharmahjanmanaa
>   jaayatE jantuḥ |  samskaaraat hi bhavEt dvijaḥ ||
>    vEda-paaThaat bhavEt vipra |  brahma jnaanaat hi
>   braahmaNah ||
>   
>   
>        On Friday, 10 July 2015 3:59 PM,
>   Srirudra <srirudra at gmail.com>
>   wrote:
>      
>   
>    DearI am not able to understand your requirement.Upadhi is
>   a Samskrit word.Attribute is its English equivalent.It is
>   the nearest English word to make a non Samskrit student to
>   understand its usage.My explanation stops with that.If you
>   want to know how Brahman is thought of as with upadhis etc I
>   myself do not know.I am also trying to know how Brahman with
>   upadhis becomes Easwara etc.Every individual has to find for
>   himself only.This is a subjective matter.R.Krishnamoorthy.
>   
>   Sent from my iPad
>   On 10-Jul-2015, at 1:21 pm, Keshava PRASAD Halemane <k_prasad_h at yahoo.co.in>
>   wrote:
>   
>   
>   namastE. My Dear Sri R. Krishnamoorthy ji:
>   Thanks. Sri Sada ji mentioned (if i have understood him
>   correctly) that upAdhi is the locus of attributes, but then
>   that they are inseparable.  Anyway, irrespective of
>   whatever fine distinctions in the technical terms associated
>   with the issue at hand, the questions that i posed earlier
>   still require to be addressed.
>    Keshava PRASAD HalemanemOkShakaamaarthadharmahjanmanaa
>   jaayatE jantuḥ |  samskaaraat hi bhavEt dvijaḥ ||
>    vEda-paaThaat bhavEt vipra |  brahma jnaanaat hi
>   braahmaNah ||
>   
>   
>        On Friday, 10 July 2015 12:54 PM,
>   Srirudra via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>   wrote:
>      
>   
>    Dear
>   Upadhi is the Samskrit term for the attribute.Upa Adhi means
>   which are characteristics of the object as seen or
>   perceived.R.Krishnamoorthy.
>   
>   Sent from my iPad
>   
>   > On 09-Jul-2015, at 2:21 pm, akhanda via Advaita-l
>   <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>   wrote:
>   >
>   > Can anyone explain the difference between attributes
>   and upaadhis? In the mahaavaakyas, are the attributes to be
>   negated through jahaajahallakshaNa, or the upaadhis?
>   >
>   > Thanks,
>   > Anil Gidwani
>   >
>   >
>   >
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