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

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste Venkat Ji,

Sudhanshu Ji had posted his analysis of certain issues which had arisen
during the course of our discussion on the appropriateness of the use of
the word *positive* in respect of the word avidyA. He had addressed his
post to me as well as others seeking a response. As I was not keen on
continuing with those issues which I considered as secondary topics which
had comeup incidentally during the course of our discussion concerning the
main issue, I just wanted to revert back to the main issue. In that
connection, in my response to the post by Sudhanshu Ji, I just drew
attention to the main issue at hand by just copying my initial post
covering reference to various scholars addressing  avidyA as positive and
also to  Sri Goda Venkateshwara Shastry's talk. That was the relevance of
my post you have referred to.

Regards

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 4:08 AM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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