[Advaita-l] BhAvarUpatA of avidyA

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste Sudhanshu Ji,

I think the question as framed by you now is different from the one you
posed earlier.

//  Are vishesha-abhAva such as pot-abhAva, cloth-abhAva etc, which are
known
by anupalabdhi pramANa, triguNAtmaka? //.

There is no reference to anupalabdhi pramANa in the question posed by you
now.

Regards

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 5:46 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Thanks Praveen ji.
>
> I had posted another question also. I will also again reframe the questions
> after your view on this.
>
> 1. Is pot-abhAva triguNatmaka?
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Feb, 2024, 5:29 pm Praveen R. Bhat, <bhatpraveen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Namaste Sudhanshuji,
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 10:37 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> In the lakshaNa of avidyA,  अनादिभावरूपं यद्विज्ञानेन विलीयते ।
> >> तदज्ञानमिति
> >> प्राज्ञा लक्षणं संप्रचक्षते ॥, the word bhAvarUpa is explained to mean
> >> abhAva-vilakshaNa. Here, what exactly does the abhAva in
> >> "abhAva-vilakshaNa" refer to?
> >>
> >
> > I suppose this lakShaNa is from Chitsukhi and I think it covers both of
> > the following, with na~n in virodhArtha.
> >
> >> 1. Does it refer to nirvishesha-abhAva like horns of hare or does it
> refer
> >> to vishesha-abhAva such as pot-abhAva, cloth-abhAva?
> >>
> >> 2. Is abhAva-vilakshaNa intended to distinguish avidyA from asat OR is
> it
> >> to distinguish avidyA from prAgabhAva, pradhvansAbhAva, anyonyAbhAva,
> >> atyantAbhAva etc.
> >>
> >
> > Since there is a pratiti of avidyA, it is atyAntAsatvilakShaNa and since
> > it also covers tUlAvidyA, it is also ghaTAbhAvAdivilakShaNa. I am not
> sure
> > how 2 is seeking anything different from 1, because if abhAva covers both
> > meanings then bhAvarUpa being abhAvavilakShaNa also covers both meanings.
> > Naiyayikas' four abhAvas are w.r.t. viShaya not jnAna and their ajnAna is
> > abhAva of jnAna, not virodhi, so Vedanti's bhAvarUpatva of ajnAna has to
> be
> > vilakShaNa to their abhAva.
> >
> > gurupAdukAbhyAm,
> > --Praveen R. Bhat
> > /* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
> > That, owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
> >
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