[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [advaitin] Re: pratiyogI-jnAna being mandatory for abhAva-jnAna

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Bhaskar ji,
I am afraid I don't understand the connection between what I have written
and what you have.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan


Regards,
Venkatraghavan

On Thu, 1 Aug 2024, 11:14 Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> praNAms Sri Venkataraghavan prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> Yes, I agree the two pada-s have pada-padArtha sambandha, the two pada-s
> also have samsarga between each other, but the vAkya has no object
> corresponding to it, that is, there is no sambandha between the vAkya and
> vAkyArtha.
>
>
>   *   This is very important observation IMHO to understand why jnAnAbhAva
> is always in abhAva rUpa not bhAva rUpa.  This is what I had written in one
> of my mails :
>   *   //quote// The absence of any form / picture in intellect of a thing
> heard through someone is called the absence of knowledge of that object.
> In the misconception (adhyAsa/ bhrAnti samaye) like seeing the snake in
> place of rope we have the form of snake in place of rope which is called
> 'wrong knowledge' and after bhrAnti nirasana (after the dawn of knowledge)
> we have the right picture of rope in our intellect.  Where as in the
> scenario of lack of knowledge of anything (gAgAbubu) there is no vrutti
> rUpa jnAna in our intellect at all.  Hence avidyA (not knowing) is always
> called as jnAnAbhAva and it is not an objectively existing thing.
> //unquote//
>   *   Am I saying anything different from what you meant above prabhuji??
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
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