[Advaita-l] [advaitin] SSSS on the controversy between mulav7idya and abhavarupa - directly and simply explained as per SSSS

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Chandramouli ji.

I had read it in some book by SSS ji. However, I don't remember as to which
book it was. Subbu ji has mentioned this quote in https://wp.me/pzMuO-35.
If he recollects, he can help locate the source.

Namaste Venkat ji.

Re "Further, he accepts that there is some ajnAna different from
> mithyA+jnAna
> [something not accepted by him when he says
> avidyA=mithyA-jnAna=jnAna-abhAva] and hence jnAna (avabodha) can remove
> Atma-anavabodha. [तस्मान्मिथ्याज्ञानव्यतिरेकेण नाज्ञानं नाम वस्त्वस्ति
> ज्ञाननिवर्त्यत्वमिति वचनं साहसमात्रमिति भावः]"
>
> Can you explain how you read तस्मान्मिथ्याज्ञानव्यतिरेकेण नाज्ञानं नाम
> वस्त्वस्ति to mean that there is some ajnAna different from mithyA+jnAna?
> Doesn't it say the opposite - that apart from mithyA jnAna there is no such
> thing called ajnAna?
>

तस्मात् मिथ्या+ज्ञान व्यतिरेकेण न अज्ञानं नाम वस्तु अस्ति -- therefore,
there is no other vastu by the name ajnAna other than mithyA+jnAna.

SSS ji qualifies the above by the following - इति वचनं साहसमात्रम्. Thus,
it follows that he does not subscribe to the idea of pUrvapakshI that
"there is no other vastu by the name ajnAna other than mithyA+jnAna".

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.

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