[Advaita-l] [advaitin] 'Adhyaropa apavada' found in Vivarana and other texts

[Michael Chandra Cohen]

Namaste Sudhanshuji, can you provide examples where post-Sankara acharyas
accept AA as 'the base of all their prakriyAs' or are you just claiming
that ajati vada as apavada implies all these acharyas embraced
understanding sastrika adhyaropa fundamentally?

As to your spurious remark about SSSS's lack of nyaya and Vedanta, I offer
these selections from SSSS's biography attesting to his intellectual and
exegetical credibility :

On the Pandit pravara Sri H.AnantaMurthy Shastry:
By 1928, he had already passed the new Nyaya Vidvat exams and received many
prizes. In 1933 he passed the old Nyaya Vidvat exams and secured several
prizes. In 1936 he passed the Vedanta Vidvat exams in the first place and
again secured 3 gold medals and an accolade by name SuvarnavIra ShrinkhalA.
After he passed the Shankara Mutt Vedanta exams in the first place, Sri
Sringeri Jagad Guru blessed him and conferred the title "Pandit Pravara"
and presented a couple of excellent shawls. He again received a gold medal
and a prize for passing the Mysore Sahitya Vidvat exams in 1938. By 1939,
he had passed the nyaya, sahitya and Vedanta exams in flying colots. It was
very fortunate that Subbaraya obtained this great scholar's help and
cooperation in his future tasks.P138
...//The Pandit's own words
"Though I partic ipated in the Shankara saptahas that Sri Subbaraya
organized, I wasn't ready to accept his postulates and principles in the
beginning. Until the completion of the saptaha at Tumkur, I wasn't bought
into his thinking. In the beginning, I even hesitated to bow to him. I
became very interested in learning and understanding those principles
correctly; it came to my mind that Subbaraya always wanted us to pay close
attention to the original Shankara's works. Finally, after a lot of
analysis and close examination of the original works, and thorough
reflection, I have now come to understand that Subbaraya's thinking is
correct, and that it is in complete agreement with Shankara, the scriptures
and intuition."

His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore also conferred the title of "Asthana
vidvan" to Subbaraya/SSSS pre-sanyas p162

The Jagad Guru ofSringeri who adorned the Sringeri Mutt - Sri Sri Abhinava
Vidyateertha Swamiji was on his travels and arrived at Holenarasipura on
Jrd May 1962. .... Our Swamiji, who had just published his VedAnta
PrakRA;yApratyabIJij-nA, brought up and discussed some of the topics from
this book. The Jagad Guru was immensely pleased with the book and the
tremendous efforts that went into the book. He offered Rs.2S0 as a
contribution to get the book published. Later he visited Adhyatma Prakash a
Karyalaya and looked at all other activities of the organization. He
genuinely praised thus - "You have dedicated your life to the propagation
of Shankar a's philosophy. Even in this old age, you work with such
enthusiasm - you are Shankara's genuine devotee!" He continued - In meeting
you and discussing these topics in person, many of my doubts have vanished.'
p215-6


On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 7:04 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Michael ji.
>
> Thank you for the list of PSA/post-Sankara Advaitins who acknowledged
>> Adhhyaropa Apavada.
>>
>
> All AchAryAs of advaita have adhyAropa-apavAda as the base of all of their
> prakriyAs. Where is the question of any list? I repeat, all AchAryAs have
> AA as the core of their prakriyAs.
>
> I don't think there's any doubt the prakriya wsa employed variously in
>> PSA. I think the issue recognizing it as fundamental.
>>
>
> Sir, I don't know how else to put it. I gave an analogy of UPI and GPay,
> PhonePe etc, if you are familiar with Indian mobile payment system.
> AdhyAropa-apavAda is the underlying framework in all the prakriyAs, be it
> DSV, SDV, ESV, STV.. whatever. ajAtivAda is the apavAda.
>
> One of SSSS's direct disciples, the anchorite and teacher of my teacher.
>> declared that SSSS's great finding wasn't about mulavidya but rather in the
>> recognition of the status of adhyaropa apavada.
>> regards, mcc
>>
>
> I am sorry but as per my understanding, SSS ji did not understand basic
> concepts of NyAya and VedAnta. So, there was no "finding" by him, leave
> aside "great finding".
>
> Regards.
> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
>
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