[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [advaitin] rope has some problem in rope snake analogy :-)

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Subbuji,
Indeed, such an AvirbhAva of the upAsya devatA's body to the upAsaka will
fall into this category.

Regards
Venkatraghavan


On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, 09:23 V Subrahmanian, <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 7:42 PM Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Namaste Raghav ji,
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, 05:13 Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l, <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > visual or auditory hallucination (of the type that's unconstitutional
>> as in
>> > schizophrenia a la "The Beautiful Mind" for example)?
>> >
>> I can't say for sure because I don't know how auditory hallucination or
>> schizophrenia manifest, but to the extent that there is perception
>> involved
>> (even illusory) and the object of perception is not present, one can
>> assume
>> the creation of an illusory object.
>>
>
> Venkat ji,
>
> This prompts me to say that the situation where  a sagunopasaka getting
> the upasya devata sakshatkara to be of this nature.  This is private to him
> and also it disappears in time.  Of course there is no bAdhaka jnanam here
> as this is not a case of atasmin tad buddhih. Yet the darshanam/perception
> is had by him for a brief period. It is a result of his long practice of
> the upasana where the samskaras generated by the upasana solidify and the
> devata appears before him.
>
> regards
> subbu
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Venkatraghavan
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