[Advaita-l] On anubhava as a pramANam

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste,
This is an interesting line in the Shankara bhAShya.

The import of this sentence is wonderfully explained in the ratnaprabhA
gloss. It is said there:

जिज्ञास्ये धर्म इव जिज्ञास्ये ब्रह्मणीति व्याख्येयम् । अनुभवो
ब्रह्मसाक्षात्काराख्यो विद्वदनुभवः । आदिपदान्मनननिदिध्यासनयोर्ग्रहः ।

तत्र हेतुमाह -

अनुभवेति ।

मुक्त्यर्थं ब्रह्मज्ञानस्य शाब्दस्य
साक्षात्कारावसानत्वापेक्षणात्प्रत्यग्भूतसिद्धब्रह्मगोचरत्वेन
साक्षात्कारफलकत्वसम्भवात् , तदर्थं मननाद्यपेक्षा युक्ता । धर्मे तु
नित्यपरोक्षे साध्ये साक्षात्कारस्यानपेक्षितत्वादसम्भवाच्च श्रुत्या
निर्णयमात्रमनुष्ठानायापेक्षितम् ।

Regards
Venkatraghavan

On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, 17:00 Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> In the well-known passage
>  न धर्मजिज्ञासायामिव श्रुत्यादय एव प्रमाणं ब्रह्मजिज्ञासायाम् । किन्तु
> श्रुत्यादयोऽनुभवादयश्चयथासम्भवमिह प्रमाणम् ,
> अनुभवावसानत्वाद्भूतवस्तुविषयत्वाच्च ब्रह्मज्ञानस्य
> (Unlike in the case of dharmajiGYAsA dealing with svargaloka etc., here in
> the case of enquiry in to brahman, it's not as if shruti etc., alone are
> the pramANas. In fact, not only shruti etc., but anubhava etc., are also
> wherever applicable pramANam. Because it all culminates in anubhava (dRShTa
> phalaM) and is dealing with a pre-existing Reality, not something to to be
> produced, reached etc.)
>
> There was an article on the above topic by Rama ji. Is a link to that
> document available ? Any help is appreciated .
>
> Also is there any option to search the advaita archives. I seem to have
> missed seeing any such option .
>
> Thank you
> Om
> Raghav
> _______________________________________________
> Archives: http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/
> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.culture.religion.advaita
>
> To unsubscribe or change your options:
> https://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/advaita-l
>
> For assistance, contact:
> listmaster at advaita-vedanta.org
>