[Advaita-l] A comparative analysis of drishTi-srishTi-vAda and srishTi-drishTi-vAda

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Bhaskar ji.

//Please give corresponding kArika reference.//

तस्मान्न जायते चित्तं चित्तदृश्यं न जायते ।
तस्य पश्यन्ति ये जातिं खे वै पश्यन्ति ते पदम् ॥ २८ ॥

You can check the bhAshya of this kArikA 4.28.

//One small question how pot thought would arise all of a sudden without
seeing some object outside!!??//

Just like in dream pot-thought arises all of a sudden without seeing some
object outside.

//Why I am not able to think about snake in shukti, rajata in rope??//

For the same reason you were not able to think in your dream about snake in
shukti, rajata in rope.

There is a beautiful statement in siddhAnta-lesha-sangraha - अत्र च
सम्भावितसकलशङ्कापङ्कप्रक्षालनं स्वप्नदृष्टान्तसलिलधारयैव कर्तव्यम्।

All possible doubts are like mud which should be washed away by the
water-stream of dream-analogy.

And waking is dream - there is no difference whatsoever.

//And this statement : thought itself is object, how it is different from
vijnAnavAda??//

Upto this much, advaita (DSV) agrees with VijnAnavAda as explained in 4.28
bhAshya. However, advaita goes on to posit singular reality which is not in
consonance with vijnAnavAda.

Regards.

P.S. I did not reply to your last post as it appeared completely fruitless
to me. Hope you don't mind.

On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 1:09 PM Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at hitachienergy.com>
wrote:

> Also, if we see Shankara's statement in MANDUkya- यस्मादसत्येव घटादौ
> घटाद्याभासता चित्तस्य विज्ञानवादिना अभ्युपगता, तदनुमोदितमस्माभिरपि
> भूतदर्शनात् - here also, the separate existence of pot etc vis-a-vis chitta
> is not accepted. DSV does precisely that. There is no pot out there being
> created. There is pot-thought and that itself is pot.
>
> praNAms Sri Sudhanshu prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> Please give corresponding kArika reference.  One small question how pot
> thought would arise all of a sudden without seeing some object outside!!??
> Why I am not able to think about snake in shukti, rajata in rope??  And
> this statement : thought itself is object, how it is different from
> vijnAnavAda??
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>


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