[Advaita-l] 'I do not know' is bhāvarūpa ajnana

[Ravi Kiran]

Namaste

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:

> praNAms
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> Hare Krishna
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> It would be interesting to know, how such a knowledge ( akhandakaravrtti)
> attained in samAdhi, differs from shAstra vAkya janita jnana?
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> Ø     In short, shAstra vAkya janita jnana is something like theoretical
> knowledge of swimming and samAdhi is diving in the water and ‘swimming’ a
> practical knowledge of ‘art of swimming’ J Hence in some vyAkhyAnakAra’s
> work there is an interval between jnana prApti and mOksha / sAkshAtkAra.
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Do you agree with above vyAkhyAnakAra’s view points ? :)

Also, do you know, in which of the vyAkhyAnakAra’s works, it is so
mentioned ?


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> If such a samAdhi janya jnana has potential to remove the avidya
> completely, in such a way ( incl of avidya lesha responsible for
> prarabdha), such a one (using just for discussion sake), may not return
> back from nirvikalpa samAdhi ( the upAdhi may drop off eventually) , right ?
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> Ø    As you know,  JMV has some details about attaining and coming back
> from samAdhi…If someone does not come out from samAdhi he would be
> considered as uppermost jnAni, if someone comes back from the samAdhi on
> his own or with the help of others they are inferior to this supreme
> jnAni.
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> Ø   Sri SSS observes that this linking of patanjala yOga method of
> samAdhi with Atmaikatva jnana of vedAnta is ‘kalabereke’ of vedAnta shAstra
> with dvaita yOga shAstra.  Though he does not belittle the importance of
> yOga shAstra in the sAdhana prakriya he is of the opinion that this
> admixture of yOga and vedAnta is quite unwarranted when advocating the
> upanishadic Atmaikatva jnana from the vedAnta perspective.
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> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
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> bhaskar
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Thanks