[Advaita-l] Fwd: Avaccheda and Pratibimba illustrations in the Yajnavalkya Smriti

[V Subrahmanian]

Thanks for this response.  Could it be a case of the Parimalakara upholding
the preference of the Bhamatikara?

This is from the Taittiriya Bhashya:  जलसूर्यकादिप्रतिबिम्बवत् प्रवेशः
स्यादिति चेत् , न ; अपरिच्छिन्नत्वादमूर्तत्वाच्च । परिच्छिन्नस्य
मूर्तस्यान्यस्य अन्यत्र प्रसादस्वभावके जलादौ सूर्यकादिप्रतिबिम्बोदयः स्यात्
, न त्वात्मनः ; अमूर्तत्वात् , आकाशादिकारणस्य आत्मनः व्यापकत्वात् ।
तद्विप्रकृष्टदेशप्रतिबिम्बाधारवस्त्वन्तराभावाच्च प्रतिबिम्बवत्प्रवेशो न
युक्तः ।   where the Bhashyakara is technically warding off the pratibima
possibility of Atman.  In the Sutra bhashya too there is such a discussion
where, at the end, he defends the Sutrakara's pratibimba analogy on the
grounds that: it is only to show that the vikara, etc. found in the
pratibimba (reflected Sun in the water subjected to movement, etc.) being
wrongly attributed to the original.  To this extent alone the analogy is
admissible/relevant.

Maybe such is the argument/idea of the Parimalakara.

warm regards
subbu

On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 3:20 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste Subbu-ji,
> Thanks for sharing instances of pratibimba-vAda and avacCheda-vAda from
> various texts.
>
> I was recently listening to the vAkyArtha conducted last month on Sri
> Appayya Dikshitendra's works. One particular discussion, led by Brahmasri
> Kuppa Vishwanatha Sharma shows the difference between avacCheda vAda and
> pratibimba vAda as demonstrated in the Parimalam (
> https://youtu.be/1V4eQYKkOf0, 2:14:00 onwards).
>
> Sri Sharma-garu makes two interesting observations based on the Parimala:
>
> 1) pratibimba vAda accepts avacCheda vAda - ie there is a role of
> avacChinnatva in pratibimba vAda also - the consciousness delimited by /
> located in the antah-karaNa is admitted as the antaryAmi even when it is
> said that the jIva is antah-karaNa-pratibimbita-caitanya.
>
> 2) However, avacCheda vAda does not accept pratibimba vAda. Through
> various arguments, the parimala-kAra establishes that pratibimba-vAda is
> not accepted in the bhAShya / sUtra. From this, it appears that Sri
> dIkshitendra shows a personal preference for avacCheda vAda over pratibimba
> vAda.
>
> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2022, 09:23 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Read the full post here:
>> https://groups.google.com/g/advaitin/c/E0NW_5NlAB0
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 1:39 PM
>> Subject: Avaccheda and Pratibimba illustrations in the Yajnavalkya Smriti
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>>
>> Avaccheda and Pratibimba illustrations in the Yajnavalkya Smriti
>> याज्ञवल्क्यस्मृतिः/प्रायश्चित्ताध्यायः/यतिधर्मप्रकरणम्
>> https://sa.wikisource.org/s/3ob
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>> आकाशं एकं हि यथा घटादिषु पृथग्भवेत् ।
>> तथात्मा एको ह्यनेकश्च जलाधारेष्विवांशुमान् । । ३.१४४ । ।
>> Just as the impartite space owing to limiting adjuncts, upadhis, such as
>> pot, appears to be many and just as the single moon appears many being
>> reflected in many water bodies, one Atman alone appears to be many owing
>> to
>> the many body-adjuncts.
>> These two most famous illustrations are extensively used in Advaita. Here
>> are just a few examples:
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