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

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Sudhanshuji,

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 9:51 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Praveen ji and Venkat ji.
>
> There is no redness in crystal with which there can be contact of eye. And
> yet we perceive redness in crystal.
>

There are two cases even when redness is perceived in the crystal:
1) when the red flower is so close to the crystal that it is also seen
while the crystal is being observed.
2) when the red flowed is close but not close enough to the crystal to be
seen while the crystal is being observed.

1 is a case of anyathAkhyAti, while 2 is that of anirvachanIyakhyati.


> This will necessarily imply the creation of anirvachanIya redness in
> crystal just as we need that in case of illusory snake -- there is no
> vyAvahArika snake there with which there can be contact of eye and yet we
> see snake. So a sAkshi-bhAsya prAtibhAsika snake is accepted. Same logic
> works here.
>

Similar rules can be applied to the above if a vyAvahArika snake is next to
the rope which is being wrongly perceived as a snake, while both are in the
scope of vision.

Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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