[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Is pot-abhAva bhAvarUpa

[Michael Chandra Cohen]

Dear Sudhanshuji,

Your various arguments of pot abhava - three gunas - abhava bhavarupa -
pratiyogi are all based on the ontological considerations not
epistemological. Avidya and adhyasa are epistemological errors not
existential entities. The same logic simply does not apply.

The snake illusion does not require the snake to exist; it arises from
misperception, not from a positive ontological snake. Similarly, ignorance
need not have a positive existence to explain the concealment of Brahman.


On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Michael ji.
>
>
> asked and already answered, again and again, Please, let's move on. 🙏🙏🙏
>>
>
> No categorical answer has ever been provided to this simple question.
>
> Let us stop here. No need to move on. It is a central concept.
>
> Simple questions:
>
> 1. Is pot-abhAva bhAvarUpa?
>
> 2. Is pot-abhAva made of three guNAs namely sattva, rajas and tamas?
>
> You take help from SSSS Ji's footnotes or from whatever source, but come
> up with precise answers. Don't copy-paste. Be clear.
>
> Regards.
> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
>
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