[Advaita-l] Vaadiraaja Teertha's Yuktimallika - Advaita Criticism - Slokas 1-10 to 1-13

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Ravi ji,
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Ravi Kiran via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:
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> If so, how can they raise objections against Vedic statements
> > itself ?
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> > Ø   By interpreting the veda vAkya in a different way like attatvamasi
> > instead of tattvamasi J
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> > How will that lead to paramArtha jnAna ?
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> ​Very valid ​question indeed. It will not lead to jnAna, let alone
paramArthajnAna! Why so? Since Shvetaketu is none the wiser at the end of
the teaching than what he was when he started. His father will have cheated
him by tempting him saying "by knowing one thing you would [as well] know
everything" and then not giving him the knowledge of one thing! :)

Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat
/* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
That owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */​