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

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Michael ji.

//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?//

Please check Samkshepa ShArIraka 2.82 to 2.94. The shlokAs are crystal
clear and give the overview of all prakriyAs. They explain as to how
adhyAropa-apavAda is in-built in all the prakriyAs and how
paramArtha-drishTi (ajAtivAda) is apavAda-drishTi.

If interested, please check MadhusUdan SaraswatI jI's sAra-sangraha-TIkA
thereupon.

I don't give credence to my imaginations and refer only to what AchAryAs in
sampradAya have said.

//As to your spurious remark about SSSS's lack of nyaya and Vedanta,//

There is nothing spurious about what I said. I said what I feel from SSS
ji's writings. His arguments are liable to be rejected by even a primary
student of NyAya and VedAnta. Look at our present discussions itself -- he
did not even acknowledge that avidyA is stated in siddhAnta as
bhAva-vilakshaNA and went on to write 1000s of pages to do
mUlAvidyA-nirAsa. One should first understand the concept and then go on to
do "nirAsa". So, I stand by my comments.

Let me ask you -- why did he not mention that avidyA is presented in
siddhAnta as bhAva-vilakshaNA? Did he hide it? Or he did not know it?

If he has mentioned it - then how can he argue that avidyA, being
bhAvarUpa, cannot be removed by ajnAna?

//I offer these selections from SSSS's biography attesting to his
intellectual and exegetical credibility ://

Despite the evidence you cite about Jagadguru of Sringeri and that of
Panditapravara, I stand by my views as they are my own and reflective of my
understanding of SSS ji's work. His works have fundamental infirmities
which make them unacceptable, as demonstrated by several members of this
forum from time to time.

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.