[Advaita-l] Binary nature of Jnana

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Raghavji,

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 5:58 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> I could not catch every word due to accent and audio constraints.

Yes, many recordings have a low audio quality, esp the old ones where
someone sitting somewhere would record on some device. And it takes a while
to tune into the accent.

> UpAsana can lead to videhakaivalyam. (Did he mean krama mukti?)
>
Yes.


> Did he refer to the possibility of shravaNa-manana done in an earlier life
> spontaneously giving sadyomukti in another life? (Because in such a case
> the sAdhaka like vAmadeva would not necessarily recollect all the shravaNa
> words heard in the earlier life.)
>
The Mahamandaleshvara didn't talk about it in this context, but elsewhere.
Here, he mentioned that manana is not smaraNa. Nonetheless, in Vamadeva's
case, I suppose it is agreeable to both of us that only pratibandhanivRtti
was pending, which can accomplished by garbhanivAsabhoga itself.

gurupAdukAbhyAm,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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