[Advaita-l] Shruti prAmANya and jnAna

[Ravi Kiran]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste,
> In addition to what Praveenji said, where pramANa leads to a conclusion
> which is  apparently contradictory to what one gets from other pramANas,
> one necessarily has to adopt yukti to determine which is correct.
>

which is where one finds bhAshya and later commentaries/talks from
ShrotrIya, extremely helpful..

For eg: Sruti says -

‘सदेव सोम्येदमग्र आसीत्’ (छा. उ. ६-२-१)
‘आत्मा वा इदमेक एवाग्र आसीत्’ (ऐ. आ. १-१-१)

Sruti also says -

‘असदेवेदमग्र आसीत्’ (छा. उ. ३-१९-१)
<http://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/php/format.php?bhashya=Chandogya&page=03&hval=%E2%80%98%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%20%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E2%80%99%20%28%E0%A4%9B%E0%A4%BE.%20%E0%A4%89.%20%E0%A5%A9-%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF-%E0%A5%A7%29#Ch_C03_S19_V01>
इति,
‘असद्वा इदमग्र आसीत्’ (तै. उ. २-७-१)
<http://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/php/format.php?bhashya=Taitiriya&page=02&hval=%E2%80%98%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%20%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E2%80%99%20%28%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%88.%20%E0%A4%89.%20%E0%A5%A8-%E0%A5%AD-%E0%A5%A7%29#T_C02_S07_V01>


>
> This does not make the pramANa  paratah - only determine which pramANa has
> been applied incorrectly.
>
> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
>
> On 5 Oct 2016 4:26 a.m., "Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Namaste Srinathji,
> >
> > On 5 Oct 2016 1:47 am, "Srinath Vedagarbha via Advaita-l" <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:46 AM, श्रीमल्ललितालालितः via Advaita-l <
> > > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Another thing to consider, there are two types of prAmANya, tested
> and
> > > > otherwise.
> > > > Tested one needs all what I said. Untested is svataH and is saved by
> > > > apauruSheyatva.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > There are no such thing as two types of prAmANya. It is either prAmANya
> > or
> > > aprAmANya.
> >
> > If a person has jaundice and sees the world yellow, does his sight have
> > pramANya or does it have aprAmANya? And how will you land there without
> > testing?
> >
> > Moreover, advaitins reach advaita by tAtparyanirNaya, which is testing of
> > prAmANya. Else it would be blind faith which takes all contradictory
> > statements of shruti as-is and then one is likely to lose even that
> faith.
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