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

[Michael Chandra Cohen]

Namaste Bhaskarji,

Your response just quoted inspires clarity on this issue. Sudhanshuji may
disagree but I believe we will always disagree. There needs to be a last
word rule that ends a topic, it seems to me.

Regards, michael

On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 6:20 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Bhaskar ji.
>
> Shortly, I was wondering how Sri Sudhanshu prabhuji holding POT in his
>> hand and trying to prove bhAvarUpa mUlAvidyA 😊 If I remember correctly
>> Sri Venkataraghavan prabhuji, few years back, had written some post on
>> ghata bhAshya, it is more of pre-existence of kArya in kAraNa and it is not
>> about brahmAshrita mUlAvidyA and IMO, here bhAshyakAra has no intention of
>> proving pre-existense of bhAvarUpa mUlAvidyA!!  I don’t know how our
>> tArkika Sri SudhAnshu prabhuji is trying to prove apple holding orange in
>> his hand!! 😊  Ghata bhAshya rather a good source to understand kArya
>> ananyatva with kAraNa  and kArya (pot) ever existence with kAraNa (clay).
>> Simply it is all about mAya satkArya vAda, the existence of kArya in the
>> kAraNa prior to its vyAkruta rUpa.
>>
>
> Please be on the topic. The anumAna presented by BhAshykAra is simple and
> clear. न च घटाभावः सन्पटः अभावात्मकः ; किं तर्हि ? भावरूप एव । एवं घटस्य
> प्राक्प्रध्वंसात्यन्ताभावानामपि घटादन्यत्वं स्यात् , घटेन
> व्यपदिश्यमानत्वात् , घटस्येतरेतराभाववत् ; तथैव भावात्मकताभावानाम.
>
> I will repeat the question:
>
> 1. Is pot-abhAva bhAvarUpa?
>
> 2. Is pot-abhAva made of three guNAs namely sattva, rajas and tamas?
>
> Just simple, plain, clear questions.
>
> Regards.
> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
>
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