[Advaita-l] Advaita Siddhi series 042 - upajIvyatvena pratyaksha prAbalya nirAkaraNam

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Venkatraghavan ji
Thank you for the post.

Regarding the naiyAyika, you wrote-
'In order for samyoga to occur between two entities, at least one of the
entities must be finite. This is because samyoga is a temporary
relationship that is born when one entity comes into contact with the
other. *Two infinite entities cannot temporarily be in contact with each
other*. Either they are permanently in contact or not at all. The self is
admitted to be all-pervading, therefore if the mind must come into contact
with the self, the mind cannot be all-pervading.'

How would the naiyAyika address the still stronger statement that
"If there are two entities X and Y which can come into temporary contact
with one another, then it follows that *both*  X and Y are necessarily
finite. If AtmA is *all-pervading*, it would always be in contact with even
a finite mind. Because wherever mind is, even that space/domain is going to
be pervaded by the all-pervading AtmA. So it follows that only if *both*
entities are finite and non-all-pervading, there is a possibility of them
coming into temporary contact with each other. "

But the naiyAyika holds the AtmA to be all-pervading ?

Thank you
Raghav

On Wed 28 Nov, 2018, 10:09 PM Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
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> Venkatraghavan
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