[Advaita-l] Gaudapada and Shankara hold the waking objects to be mithya

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Chandramouli ji,

That is fair. We can only wait to see if Bhaskar ji or others are able to
clarify the true intent of Sri SSS.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan


On Wed, 2 Aug 2023, 18:23 H S Chandramouli, <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Venkat Ji,
>
> I have a small problem in responding to your queries. While I can present
> literally what Sri SSS has stated in different places, I may not be able to
> justify or clarify his views. I can do so in some cases. But not where my
> understanding  of the topic itself is different. I will not be doing
> justice to him (Sri SSS) if I try to clarify in such cases. It will be upto
> the readers to come to their own conclusions or may be discuss the same
> with any of his (Sri SSS)  followers. I do have my own personal
> understanding. But it may not be appropriate to present them as his (Sri
> SSS) view as well.
>
> I was just referring to the Appendix 1 to his BSB translation cum
> commentary in kannada. He states under Section 4 that ** In this BSB avidyA
> means adhyAsA only**.  This is just in continuation to my earlier post.
> Regards
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 5:50 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Namaste Chandramouli ji,
>>
>> So when SSS says avidyA is completely negated in the first sentence of
>> the quote
>> ("avidyA is completely negated (bAdhita)  by jnAna, meaning thereby it
>> leads to the conviction that it really does not exist at all"), do you
>> think that is adhyAsa or jnAna abhAva?
>>
>> And in the next sentence ("There is no defect in admitting the
>> subsistence of mithyajnAna  etc for some time") when he talked of
>> mithyAjnAna, is that jnAna abhAva or adhyAsa?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Venkatraghavan
>>
>>
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