[Advaita-l] Ramana Maharshi - Advaitin or Neo Advaitin?

[Venkatraghavan S]

Great, thanks Praveen ji.

On 20 Sep 2016 10:39 a.m., "Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l" <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Raghavji,
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Raghav Kumar via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Do you mean that the word jnAtum can be understood as jnEyam in this
> > particular context?
> >
> > It sounds quite plausible to me.
> >
> > Just a thought ... Would not it have been composed as  'jnAnamasti kim
> > jnEyam antaram' in that case? The chandas is not disturbed thereby and
> yet
> > we find the composer chooses jnAtum rather than jnEyam.
> >
> > I dont have with me right now shri kAvyakanTha ganapati muni's brief
> > sanskrit  commentary on upadesha sAraM . It would be interesting to see
> > what he says.
> >
>
> I'd translate the verse so:  That consciousness [which is] free from
> knowledge of objects and free from ignorance is knowledge. What else is
> there to know?
>
> Ganapati Muni says: ज्ञानवर्जिता अज्ञानहीना  च चित् ज्ञानं भवति। ननु ज्ञाने
> ज्ञानवर्जितत्वं कथम् इति चेत् कारणम् आह। ज्ञातुं यत् किञ्चिद् अन्यद्
> वेदितुम् अन्तरं भेदः अस्ति किम्?  नास्ति इति भावः। तत्र स्थितौ भेदाभावात्
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> पूर्णानुभूतिरूपत्वात्।
>
> Kind rgds,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* Through what should one know That owing to which all this is known!
> [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
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