[Advaita-l] Self-deceit and false claims of jnana?

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 1:00 AM Akilesh Ayyar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste,
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> Are there examples in the literature, especially the ancient literature, of
> people who have deceived themselves about "attaining" jnana? If so, what
> happened?
>

Namaste

Here is an account from the Mahabharata is here, where there is a whole
dialogue between Sage Panchashikha's disciple King Dharmadhvaya Janaka and
a Yogini Sulabha:

https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m12/m12c019.htm

https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m12/m12c020.htm

regards
subbu

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