[Advaita-l] Fwd: [advaitin] Yet another Mahavakya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste.

Reg  << True, but that does not amount to a denial of the possibility of a
samskAra of mahAvAkya shravaNam in the past leading to jnAna in the present
- to do that, one will have to prove that there can be no pratibandhas to
the rise of jnAna after mahAvAkya shravaNam, and I have not come across any
pramANa for such a postulate >>,

I did not say that there can be no pratibandhas to the rise of jnAna after
mahAvAkya shravaNam. In fact most of the times, such pratibandhas do
obstruct the rise of jnana. Sri Bhasgavatpada himself mentions it in BSB
4-1-1 that repetitive shravana/manana/nididhyasana  is required  to be
carried out till the rise of  aparoksha jnAna. SamskAra is not mentioned.

Regards

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 5:29 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste,
> "Sri Bhagavatpada specifically declares in a number of places that
> Realization is instantaneous and coterminus with mahAvAkya shravaNa. For
> example please refer Upadesha Sahasri, metric part, chapter 18, verses
> 103/104."
>
> True, but that does not amount to a denial of the possibility of a
> samskAra of mahAvAkya shravaNam in the past leading to jnAna in the present
> - to do that, one will have to prove that there can be no pratibandhas to
> the rise of jnAna after mahAvAkya shravaNam, and I have not come across any
> pramANa for such a postulate.
>
> It is like saying I see that knowledge "this is a pot" is coterminus with
> the senses making contact with the pot. Everyone will agree with that, with
> the caveat that pot will have to be well lit as well.
>
> If darkness obscures the pot, I will not be able to see it, even when the
> senses make contact with the pot.
>
> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, 11:05 H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>
>> Sri Bhagavatpada specifically declares in a number of places that
>> Realization is instantaneous and coterminus with mahAvAkya shravaNa. For
>> example please refer Upadesha Sahasri, metric part, chapter 18, verses
>> 103/104.
>
>