[Advaita-l] HH Sri Paramananda Bharathi Swamiji attained mukti

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Bhaskar ji
You seem to have missed a crucial point made by Sri Venkatraghavan ji viz.,
; *तथैव भावात्मकताभावानाम् ।"  *
in the context of ghatAbhAvaH being nothing but
san-pataH or san-something else. So even this category called abhAva is
bhAvAtmikA.

Om
Raghav




On Wed 7 Aug, 2019, 5:35 PM Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> praNAms Sri Sudhanshu Shekhar prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> I am aware that in nyAya, in order to know abhAva-A, we need to have prior
> knowledge of A. And this is logical also.
>
> However, let us take an example where though I don't know A,  I know the
> effects of A. And therefore, I can make an inference of abhAva of A by the
> fact of abhAva of A's effects. The abhAva of effects of A will prove abhAva
> of A. (A = Brahma-jnAna, A's effect = ~shoka-moha)
>
> >  In vedAnta AFAIK adhyAsa (mis conception / vipareeta pratyaya) is due
> to agrahaNa, the absence of knowledge that he is brahman.  And as you know
> this adhyAsa is called avidyA in adhyAsa bhAshya by shankara.  'avidyA' as
> such (jnAnAbhAva) is not harmful na cha avidyA kevalA vaishmyasya kAraNaM
> because it is 'ekarUpatvAt', I don’t know I am brahman (jnAnAbhAva)  is not
> the problem but problem starts when I am thinking that I am deha, indriya,
> buddhi, ahamkara etc. (anyathA grahaNa / mithyA jnana), hence adhyAsa type
> avidyA / ajnAna is more harmful though jnAnAbhAva is pravartaka beejaM.
>
> Will it not be a case where I can know the abhAva of A without knowing A
> as such? And hence the argument -- ajnAna cannot be jnAna-abhAva for it
> requires upfront knowledge of Brahma-jnAna -- may not be valid in VedAnta
> (though in nyAya, it is a sound argument).
>
> >  Frankly, since I am unfamiliar with nyAnya and its methods, (though
> nyAya vaisheshika-s are pUrvapaxi-s to vedAnta )  it is better to know how
> far we can use the naiyAyika vAda or nyAya in determining some issues in
> vedAnta.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
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