[Advaita-l] [advaitin] mUlAvidyA adhyastha or anadhyastha??

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Subbuji,
As far as I am aware, I don't think there is any commentator that has held
that ajnAna is not adhyastha. Would be curious to know if that is not
correct.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan

On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, 09:11 V Subrahmanian, <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are many commentators who have held that ajnana is mithya, that is
> ajnana is adhyasta and therefore not real, like rajjusarpa:
>
> न्यायनिर्णयव्याख्या
>
> ………वा पृच्छ्यत इति विकल्प्याद्यौ प्रत्याह — मिथ्येति । मिथ्या च तदज्ञानं
> च तन्निमित्तमुपादानं यस्य सोऽध्यासस्तथा । तत्र मिथ्येत्युक्ते
> भ्रान्तिज्ञानप्राप्तावज्ञानमित्युक्तम् ।………
>
>
> न्यायनिर्णयव्याख्या
>
> ……… मिथ्या च तदज्ञानं चेति विग्रहः तस्य भ्रान्तित्वं व्यवच्छिनत्ति —
> संसारेति । ………
>
>
> पञ्चपादिका
>
> ………स्वरूपम् इतिवत् व्यपदेशमात्रं द्रष्टव्यम् । मिथ्याज्ञाननिमित्तः इति ।
> मिथ्या च तदज्ञानं च मिथ्याज्ञानम् । मिथ्येति अनिर्वचनीयता उच्यते ।
> अज्ञानमिति च………
>
>
> आनन्दगिरिटीका (छान्दोग्य)
>
> ……… आरोपितसंसारित्वं वस्तुतो नाऽऽत्मन्यस्तीत्येतद्दृष्टान्तेन स्पष्टयति –
> न हीति । मिथ्या च तदज्ञानं चेति मिथ्याज्ञानं तेनाध्यस्तान्यविद्यमानान्येव
> विद्यमानवत्प्रतीतिमापादितानीति यावत् । ………
>
>
> भाष्यरत्नप्रभाव्याख्या
>
> ……… अध्यासस्योपादानमाह - मिथ्याज्ञाननिमित्त इति । मिथ्या च तदज्ञानं च
> मिथ्याज्ञानं तन्निमित्तमुपादानं यस्य स तन्निमित्तः । तदुपादान(तदुपादानक)*
> इत्यर्थः……
>
>
> पूर्णानन्दीया
>
> ……… अज्ञानपदेन विवक्षितमर्थमाह – साक्षाज्ज्ञानेति । मिथ्या च तदज्ञानं च
> मिथ्याज्ञानं तत्प्रतिपादकं समासवाक्यरूपं यत्पदं तेनेत्यर्थः ।
>
>
> All these commentators hold the ajnana to be adhyasta. In other words this
> ajnana is superimposed and will cease to be upon jnana.
>
>
> Om
>
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, 4:29 pm 'Bhaskar YR' via advaitin, <
> advaitin at googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> praNAms
>>
>> Hare Krishna
>>
>>
>>
>> Sri SSS at one place says if the mUlAvidyAvAdins say mUlAvidyA is kevala
>> adhyastha (avidyAkalpita / imagined / misconceived due to ignorance etc.)
>> on brahman then I don’t have any problem in calling it as mUlAvidyA, but if
>> someone says this mUlAvidyA is anadhyastha (not superimposed), not
>> avidyAkalpita then I never ever accept it.
>>
>>
>>
>> May I know which vyAkhya has the reference that would say mUlAvidyA is
>> not adhyastha and it is not avidyAkalpita and parallel to brahman??
>>
>>
>>
>> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
>>
>> bhaskar
>>
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