[Advaita-l] 'lens-grass' burning analogy

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Subbuji
>From memory, it definitely is in vichAra sAgara.

Regards
Venkatraghavan


On Sat, 15 Sep 2018, 02:58 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
>
> 'lens-grass' burning analogy
>
> I am looking for the reference of an analogy used in the texts to show that
> 'svarupa jnanam does not directly annihilate avidya, but when directed
> through a vritti, it does the job'. The analogy is: sun directly does not
> burn a blade of grass but when directed through a glass/lens, it burns.
> This analogy is in some prakarana grantha or vyakhyana.  Any help in
> locating the text is appreciated.
>
> Thanks and regards
> subrahmanian.v
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