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

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Sudhanshu ji,

On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, 22:06 Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>
>
> Isn't this conclusion of VedAnta ParibhAshA in contradiction with siddhAnta
> as propounded inAdvaita SIddhi wherein the redness-of-crystal is accepted
> to be mithyA (and not laukika-pAramArtika) following VivaraNa.
>

I don't think there is a contradiction. The VP is admitting that the red
crystal is mithyA. All it is saying is that the redness observed is not
created at the time of perception. If an attribute existing elsewhere is
falsely assumed to be present somewhere else (atasmin tadbiddhih), then the
superimposition of the former onto the latter is mithyA.


>  लौहित्ये स्फटिकस्य
> त्वारोपे तस्य प्रतिबिम्बत्वम् , स्फटिके लौहित्यारोपे तु तस्य मिथ्यात्वमिति
> विवेकः ।
>

Please note the SiddhikAra is talking of the Aropa (superimposition) of
redness being mithyA, not whether the redness is created or not - the
pronoun 'tasya' refers to the Aropa and not sphaTika or the lauhitya. That
the VP will have no qualms with. I had said this in my previous (last
year's) discussion with Chandramouli ji.

And regarding this,

>
> यत्तूक्तं मरीचिकाजले सूर्यप्रतिबिम्बादर्शनात् बिम्बसमानसत्ताकत्वं
> प्रतिबिम्बोद्ग्राहित्वे प्रयोजकमिति । तन्न; अध्यस्तस्य स्फटिकलौहित्यस्य
> दर्पणे प्रतिबिम्बदर्शनात् ।
>
With respect to the above too while the VP states that where there is
indriya sannikarSha there is no need to postulate the creation of a
sphaTikalauhitya, the text also admits the creation of a prAtibhAsika
sphaTikalauhitya when there is no indriya sannikarSha.  See below from the
VP
"
*नन्वेवं यत्र जपाकुसुमं द्रव्यान्तरव्यवधानादसन्निकृष्टं तत्र
लौहित्यप्रतीत्या प्रातिभासिकं लौहित्यं स्वीक्रियतामिति चेत्, न,  इष्टत्वात्
।*
*The opponent says - If that is the case, where the hibiscus is not in
contact with the senses because of obstruction by some other object, there
the redness that appears must be admitted to be a prAtibhAsika redness. The
paribhAShAkAra says - that is not a problem, for that is desirable.*"

Now, such a prAtibhAsika redness is also reflected in the mirror in the
siddhikAra's example and the pUrvapakshi's contention that in all cases,
the bimba and the darpaNa must be of the same order of reality, still
stands refuted.

One can see a path to avoid contradiction if one so chooses.

Kind regards,
Venkatraghvan


On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 11:07 AM Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > praNAms
> > Hare Krishna
> >
> > I am really sorry to say some statements ldrafted out of dry tarka (dry
> > logic) would definitely give lot of pain to parAbhakti sAdhaka-s in
> Advaita
> > mArga !! Our prayers/Tapasya/dhyAna/ archana etc. is just to see what is
> > there in our jnAnAdhyAsa !!??   IshwarAnugraha, his kAruNya, his
> blessings
> > etc. just pouring out of that mere jnAnAdhyAsa??  Where we are the
> > advaitins going??  who follow the great tradition of great Krishna bhakta
> > Sri Madhusudana Saraswati??  We are forgetting the simple fact that even
> to
> > think on these lines (jnAnAdhyAsa, arthAdhyAsa etc. within the scope of
> > Advaita) we need the Ishwara kAruNya and the jnana we obtain from this
> > jignAsa is IshwarAnugraha.  Ishwaraanugraha hetukenaiva cha vijnAnena
> > mOksha siddhiH bhavituM arhati says bhAshyakAra.  IMHO, one simple thing
> we
> > should always keep in mind that we the advaitins are not mere dry
> logicians
> > (dry philosophers/ tarkikaa-s ) but we are followers of saNta/saints like
> > shankara bhagavatpAda.
> >
> > No intention of hurting anyone's sentiments here, just my observation.
> >
> > Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> > bhaskar
> >
> >
> > Yes ji
> > The genuine case of upAsya devatA pratyaxa could possibly be classified
> as
> > jnAnAdhyAsa without arthAdhyAsa. And we could argue that such experiences
> > are not categorizable as purely sAxI pratyaxa like icchA, dveSha etc
> > because their (ie upAsya devatA's)  locus is perceived as being outside
> > oneself.
> >
> > Again these experiences of genuine devatA pratyaxa do not suffer bAdha
> > unlike schizophrenia etc which might produce similar experiences which
> are
> > recognised as delusional, upon taking appropriate medicines.
> >
> > Regarding the sopAdhika bhrama (like a crystal appearing yellow due to
> the
> > flower kept next to it), it was pointed out by Venkataraghavan ji (in
> > agreement with Chandramouliji as per older discussion ) that it's an
> > example of jnAnAdhyAsa without arthAdhyAsa.
> >
> >
> > > > 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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