[Advaita-l] Shankara and DrishTi-SrishTi vAda - eka jeeva vaada

[H S Chandramouli]

It is very interesting to note what the author Sri PrakashAnanda  says
about “khyati” itself..



Quote from Sidhantamuktavali (pp 171)



<< Then ( rejoins the pupil ) this is simply a teaching of asatkhyAti under
another guise. Not so, says the guru ; for in our view the khyAti
(perception) also is illusory, which the ChArvAka or holder of asatkhyAti
will not admit ( as he holds that the khyAti is real ) >>.



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Regards

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 4:17 PM, H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Namaste Sri Venkatraghavan Ji,
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> Reg your observation  << I don't see how you draw the conclusion that
> PrakashAnanda only accepts ज्ञानाध्यास, and not अर्थाध्यास >>,
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>  It is because he holds that dvaitam is तुछ्छ (tuchcha).  There is no
> separate creation, real or mithya. As stated in sidhantaleshasamgraha, he
> holds that “Perception itself is creation”. I should however clarify here
> that the word ज्ञानाध्यास is not used in either sidhantaleshasamgraha or
> Sidhantamuktavali.  It is my own understanding of the above position.
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> Reg  << ज्ञानाध्यास, and not अर्थाध्यास - the two always occur together,
> I haven't encountered a situation where one exists but not the other.>>.
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> Not so. The two can exist separately.
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> Reg  << By definition, ज्ञानाध्यास  is an अविद्या  वृत्ति located in the
> kAraNa sharIra. Now if you say that PrakashAnanda holds that only
> jnAnAdhyAsa occurs, with no corresponding arthAdhyAsa outside, how can one
> account for the specific location perceived of external objects, in
> statements like "I see a snake there", "silver here" etc? >>,
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>  I think you are mixingup SDV and DSV.
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> Reg  << Please can you elaborate for the reasons that led you to such a
> conclusion? >>,
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> Covered above.
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> Reg  << Such an interpretation would be akin to the AtmakhyAti of vijnAna
> vAda, not the anirvachanIya khyAti of advaita, which includes
> PrakashAnanda's prakriya. >>,
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> PrakashAnanda's prakriya does not allow for anirvachanIya khyAti of
> advaita. He also claims that his prakriya does not follow AtmakhyAti of
> vijnAna vAda ( pp 132-134 of Sidhantamuktavali ).
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> Regards
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