[Advaita-l] Doubt the liberator

Praveen R. Bhat bhatpraveen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 03:29:03 EDT 2018


​Namaste,

Without getting into the argument pointwise, let me just try to make a case
from an observation of the subject line itself which reads as "Doubt the
liberator". Does this subject line mean:
--express doubt about the liberator,
--doubt itself is the liberator or
--doubt leads to a person becoming a liberator?

All three meanings or even more are possible grammatically and by
extension. Who is the authority on interpreting this well?! Is it the OP
and someone who the OP explains what his vivakSha was or it can be any Tom,
Dick and Harry, who can analyse, discarding OP's explanation as well as of
his students? The answer is hopefully clear. Of course, it may *appear*
ridiculous after a few centuries that "free-interpretation" of even this
thread done by anyone may not be right, but only by those whom the OP has
taught, even by those interpreting variously among his own successors,
especially when it is not a single sentence but several works.

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] */


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