[Advaita-l] अनिर्वचनीया ख्याति anirvacaniiyaa khyaati post-Shankara origin?

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

There is a Sloka I forget. It says for a dull minded person the world is
real - Sat and for a Jnani it is Asat. For a inquiring person it is
Anirvachaniya.

Adi Sankara has explained Adhyasa and from this Adhyasa the Anirvachaniya
Khyati is deduced logically.


On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 9:52 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> In Advaita vedanta, the model to explain erroneous perceptions (such as
> seeing a snake instead of the actual rope) is that  of अनिर्वचनीया
> ख्यातिवाद (anirvacaniiyaa khyaati-vaada). This is used to explain that
> erroneous perceptions are neither categorically real nor categorically
> unreal.
>
> "If its real, then it would never get negated/sublated; if it is unreal
> then it would never be experienced at all.(सच्चेत् न बाध्येत ; असत् चेत् न
> प्रतीयेत)". Therefore the erroneous perception is labelled anirvacaniiyaa
> khyaati. This is the idea.
>
> Is this idea of anirvacaniiyaa khyaati presented in Shankara Bhashya? Or
> was it of later origin? Also, do some advaitins hold that this
> anirvacaniiyaa khyaati-vaada was of later post-Shankara origin?
>
> Thank you in advance for any light on this matter.
>
> Om
>
> Raghav
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Regards

-Venkatesh