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

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Sudhanshu ji
 Since no meaningful reply came up, I shall take the liberty of some
friendly "banter" as they say in cricket.

Our friendly neighborhood abhAva-vAdins probably realise that SSS ji has
definitely and clearly rejected bhAShyakAra's ghaTa bhAShya.  They should
be bold and form a 20th century prakriyA -  their "coming out" moment is
awaited,  to reject the clear logic of bhAShyakAra that pot-abhAva is also
bhAvarUpa. न च घटाभावः सन्पटः अभावात्मकः ; किं तर्हि ? भावरूप एव ।

By not answering your simple question - "do you accept the logic given in
bhAShya" - they seek to "contextualise" the anumAna of bhAShyakAra viz.,
they are saying ऊपर ऊपर से, "don't take such nyAyas in bhAShya literally
and seriously. C'mon!!  There is a higher "intention" and "purpose" behind
such logic offered in bhAShya to counter the Buddhists etc and establishing
kArya-kAraNa-ananyatvaM. So we should gloss over all such inconvenient
bhAShya logic and stay with "bhAShyAxara bhAva" without getting toooo
logical about everything. After all, which reasonable modern 21st century
educated intelligent smart clever scientific person following "common
sense" would accept the bhAShya anumAna that  "ghaTAbhAva" is also
"bhAvarUpa" even if it is clearly logically asserted by bhAShyakAra."

So, Sudhanshu ji, you might get only hit and run tactics as response -
"let's move on" like the nomads and slash-and-burn shifting
agriculturalists,  to some other tangential passage from bhAShya.

 Just when the SSS ji followers thought they had wriggled out of the
Eskimo-predicament, now there is a नई मुसीबत् viz., they are caught in the
Pot-predicament (ie SSS ji and followers are rejecting brihadAraNyaka ghaTa
bhAShya and not ready to go by its logic, except where it suits their
pre-conceived conclusion about the intention and purpose of bhAShyakAra
which only they are privy to).

If one goes all the way and stays course with logic of bhAShya and Sri MS,
it will land the followers of Sri SSS in deep trouble....or they might sing
"ye kahaan aa gaye hum....yon hi saath chalte chalte"....


Om
Raghav





On Fri, 29 Nov, 2024, 6:45 pm Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Dear sir,
>
> I have answered several times in different ways but none of my responses
> > appeals to you and I don't want to get pulled into another back and forth
> > discussion.
> >
>
> Why are you answering it in "different ways", when the question is yes/no?
> Simple thing - again - is pot-abhAva bhAvarUpa? Is pot-abhAva composed of
> three guNAs?
>
> Regards.
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