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

[Bhaskar YR]

I have no clear idea about who a Jnani is and who an ajnani is.

praNAms Sri Srinivas prabhuji
Hare Krishna

I know the intention behind your question.   In short jnAni is Samyak darshi, he is avidyA vinirmukta, he is having the sarvAtma bhAva.  bhAshyakAra explains Samyak darshanaM / Atmaikatva darshanaM is itself mOkshAvasthA.  And very importantly there is absolute absence of saMsAra and saMsAritva.  The very purpose of brahma vidyA is avidyA nivrutti and as a result ‘athyanta abhAva of samsAra.  ( prayOjanaM chAsyA brahmavidyAyA avidyA nivtuttiH  and what is that vidyA that is being taught in shruti??  bhAshyakAra answers : sarvAtmabrahmaNa Atmatva darshanena vidya.  Vidye is the correct knowledge (yathArtha jnana) of what is existing.  jnana is seeing what it is, it does not create which is not existing.  There is no anAtma vastu / mithyAvastu in the brahma jnAni for him there exists nothing but brahman.  Brahman is left, right, top, bottom, inside, outside etc. 😊 So jnAni’s drushti is not mithyA drushti it is satyatva buddhi in what really existing.  Hence jnAni’s drushti is called satya drushti, mala rahita drushti, ekatva drushti, samadarshitvaM etc.  And ajnAni is the one who does not have this paripUrNa drushti but only parichinna drushti.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar