[Advaita-l] Whether darkness is bhava - Vivarana Prameya Samgraha of Shri Vidyaranya

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Praveen ji
You wrote
" If this jnAna goes away due to
memory loss as someone asked, non existent jnAna = ajnAna, thereby a person
is bound again!! Instead, if ajnAna is yatkinchidbhAvarUpa, it is destroyed
by jnAna, a person is free; whether or not this jnAna is held on to using
memory! This jnAna forgotten also cannot bring back ajnAna.,"

That's an excellent point. I always 'knew' that a jnAnI may forget all the
shAstra vAkyas, their meanings and prakriyAs in old age or in an accident,
but the GYAnam and moxaH do not go away.

But I did not realise the connection you mentioned that, if it is
abhAvarUpA avidyA, then if the memory of shAstra vAkyas etc., is lost in
old age etc., the abhAvarUpa avidyA can make a comeback. And so abhAvarUpA
avidyA implies anirmoxa-prasangaH.

Om
Raghav




On Thu 9 May, 2019, 10:36 PM Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste all,
>
> Since there is always a "mischievous" misinterpretation of the vyAkhyAnas,
> let me clarify that bhAvarUpa said to be yatkinchidbhAvarUpa is not
> pAramArthika; no sane advaitin can think so, let alone vyAkhyAnakAras!
> Further, if a complete abhAvarUpa ajnAna can be the cause of bondage,
> nitya-mokSha is impossible as there is no guarantee that it won't cause
> bondage yet again! jnAnamastIti chenna, since such knowledge has nothing
> bhAvarUpa to act upon, it can easily come and go. Else what is jnAna going
> to take away? Earlier there was no jnAna; having got it, one has to hold on
> to it, like yogakShema of everything else! If this jnAna goes away due to
> memory loss as someone asked, non existent jnAna = ajnAna, thereby a person
> is bound again!! Instead, if ajnAna is yatkinchidbhAvarUpa, it is destroyed
> by jnAna, a person is free; whether or not this jnAna is held on to using
> memory! This jnAna forgotten also cannot bring back ajnAna.
>
> gurupAdukAbhyAm,
> --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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