[Advaita-l] what is the technical definition of Drik in Advaita?

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste.

As mentioned in the quote by Jaldhar Ji, dR^ik in Advaita SiddhAnta is
Chaitanya/Atman/Brahman. I am citing below just one quote in respect of
this from Katha Up. It is a followup on 2-2-8 which I have not cited here,
and may be referred to for context.

Katha Up 2-2-15 //  न तत्र सूर्यो भाति न चन्द्रतारकं नेमा विद्युतो भान्ति
कुतोऽयमग्निः ।
तमेव भान्तमनुभाति सर्वं तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति ॥ १५ ॥  //

//  na tatra sUryo bhAti na chandratArakaM nemA vidyuto bhAnti
kuto.ayamagniH |

tameva bhAntamanubhAti sarvaM tasya bhAsA sarvamidaM vibhAti || 15 || //

Translation (Swami Gambhirananda)  //  There the sun does not shine,
neither do the moon and the stars; nor do these flashes of lightning shine.
How can this fire? He shining, all these shine; through his lustre all
these are variously illumined.  // .

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On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 11:10 AM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 May 2024, Krishna Kashyap via Advaita-l wrote:
>
> > what is the technical definition of Drik in Advaita?
> >
> > is this in drik drishya viveka or in some other text?
> >
>
> shrI rAmarAya kavi in his vedAntasaMgraha says:
>
> dR^ik dR^ishyaM dvau padArthau | imAmeva chidAchiditi GYAnaM jaDamiti cha
> vyvaharanti | svaprakAshatve sati svetarasarvAvabhAsakatvaM dR^isho
> lakShaNam | GYeyatvaM dR^shyasya lakShanam |
>
> "The two substances are the seer and the seen.  These are also
> conventionally known as chit[1] and achita[2] and GYAna[3] and jaDa[4].
> The definition of the seer is that it illuminates all else being
> self-luminous.  Being the object of Jnana is the definition of seen."
>
> [1] consciousness.
>
> [2] unconsciousness or rather, non-consciousness.
>
> [3] knowledge
>
> [4] inertness
>
> I have left certain words in Sanskrit in the main body of the translation
> and only attempted to give an English definition in footnotes because
> such definitions are inexact. Better to use the proper terms for
> precision.
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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