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

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste.

BUB 3-4-1 (Ushastha BrahmaNa) may also be referred. Copying a small part
 from the same below.

//  वस्तुस्वाभाव्यात् ; किं पुनः तत् वस्तुस्वाभाव्यम् ?
दृष्ट्यादिद्रष्टृत्वम् ; दृष्टेर्द्रष्टा ह्यात्मा ; दृष्टिरिति द्विविधा भवति —
लौकिकी पारमार्थिकी चेति   //

//  vastusvAbhAvyAt ; kiM punaH tat vastusvAbhAvyam ?
dRRiShTyAdidraShTRRitvam ; dRRiShTerdraShTA hyAtmA ; dRRiShTiriti dvividhA
bhavati — laukikI pAramArthikI cheti  //

Translation (Swami Madhavananda)  //  What is that ? Its being the witness
of vision etc. for the self is the witness of vision. Vision is of two
kinds, ordinary and real //

I have copied only a small part from the Bhashya, just as an introduction
to what I posted earlier. In the context of the question raised, it would
be very useful and illuminating to study this BrahmaNa ( Ushastha
BrahmaNa), having just two mantras, in its entirety.

Regards.


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On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 3:21 PM H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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