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

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Chandramouliji,

I was referring to your previous email, which appeared to be a reply to my
first email on the 18th of August, as it appeared in response to that email
- I think you have removed both those emails in this chain.

In my email, I was agreeing with Sudhanshu ji's analysis of the Advaita
Siddhi portion on the definition of avidyA, where the siddhikAra had
interpreted "bhAva" to refer to presence in general and not necessarily
paramArtha sat.

To this, your email in reply had said that the main point of the discussion
was that various scholars had referred to avidyA as positive and in
particular, that Goda Venkateshwara Shastry's view was that bhAva referred
to Brahman.

I didn't understand the relevance of that response.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan


On Sun, 18 Aug 2024, 23:48 H S Chandramouli, <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Venkat Ji,
>
> Reg //  Not sure if it was addressed to me, but I fail to understand the
> relevance of quoting some English writers referring to avidyA as a positive
> entity.
>
> It is clear from the Advaita Siddhi that avidyA is neither bhAva nor
> abhAva. If someone refers to it as positive, what does that have to with
> our discussion? //,
>
> What exactly are you referring to. I am perplexed. I never thought of
> anything you wrote on the subject.
>
> Regards
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 8:12 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Namaste Chandramouliji,
>>
>> Not sure if it was addressed to me, but I fail to understand the
>> relevance of quoting some English writers referring to avidyA as a positive
>> entity.
>>
>> It is clear from the Advaita Siddhi that avidyA is neither bhAva nor
>> abhAva. If someone refers to it as positive, what does that have to with
>> our discussion?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Venkatraghavan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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