[Advaita-l] [advaitin] A smart inference by Shankara

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Michael ji.

Both (followers of) SSS ji and Manjushree Hegde ji should first clarify as
to which prakriyA they are talking about. Whether it is SDV, DSV, ajAti,
eka-jIva-vAda, aneka-jIva-vAda, sattA-dvaividhya-vAda,
sattA-traividhya-vAda, eka-sattA-vAda etc? We have different theories for
different models catering to different adhikArIs. This is mentioned by
BhAshyakAra in MANDUkya -  यापि बुद्धैः अद्वैतवादिभिः जातिः देशिता
उपदिष्टा, उपलम्भनमुपलम्भः, तस्मात् उपलब्धेरित्यर्थः । समाचारात्
वर्णाश्रमादिधर्मसमाचरणाच्च ताभ्यां हेतुभ्याम् अस्तिवस्तुत्ववादिनाम् अस्ति
वस्तुभाव इत्येवंवदनशीलानां दृढाग्रहवतां श्रद्दधानां
मन्दविवेकिनामर्थोपायत्वेन सा देशिता जातिः तां गृह्णन्तु तावत् ।
वेदान्ताभ्यासिनां तु स्वयमेव अजाद्वयात्मविषयो विवेको भविष्यतीति ; न तु
परमार्थबुद्ध्या ।

//Failing to see that the convention of the eschatological mukti is only a
concession to the Vyāvahāric view that man has a body, the Vyākhyāna
schools have succumbed to 18 the belief that release is really an event in
time to be attained after exhausting all karmas//

Such statement by SSS ji attributing "failure" and "succumbing" by
post-Shankara AchAryAs shows his ignorance of siddhAnta as propounded in
sampradAya. SiddhAnta upholds ajAti as the only truth and speaks of SDV and
DSV as means to lead thereto. Jivanmukti-videhamukti is valid in SDV which
paves the way to DSV wherein jIvanmukti is treated as arthavAda. This in
turn leads to ajAti which is the ultimate truth.

Failure by SSS ji in appreciating the siddhAnta as being differently
propounded to different aspirants depending on their adhikAritvam as
enunciated by BhAshyakAra has resulted in SSS ji's succumbing to usage of
fertile imagination to be propagated in the name of siddhAnta.

Has SSS ji anywhere acknowledged the fact that jIvanmukti is treated as
arthavAda in siddhAnta? You should check it from SSS ji followers and must
come back. If he has not acknowledged it, then it speaks volumes about his
correct representation of siddhAnta as presented by later AchAryAs.

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.