[Advaita-l] [advaitin] अद्वैतपरिशुद्धि :-Advaita Parishuddi- Tamil - By-Vid.Mani Dravid Sastri

[V Subrahmanian]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 4:49 PM 'Bhaskar YR' via advaitin <
advaitin at googlegroups.com> wrote:

> The text reveals that the objections raised do not apply to Advaita.
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> praNAms
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> Hare Krishna
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> Sri SSS somewhere observes that the objections raised by dualists in these
> texts are mainly on Advaita vyAkhyAna-s, which itself treated as
> parishuddha shankara Advaita vedaanta by them and they never cared to see
> the ‘mUla’.
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The above observation purportedly made by Sri SSS is not based on the
facts. Here is shown just one example to demonstrate that:

न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः।
न चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम्।। 2.12।।

But certainly (it is) not (a fact) that I did not exist at any time; nor
you, nor these rulers of men. And surely it is not that we all shall cease
to exist after this.

For this Shankara's commentary at the end is:

*देहेभेदानुवृत्त्या बहुवचनं नात्मभेदाभिप्रायेण।।*

The plural number (in we) is used following the diversity of the bodies,
but not in the sense of the multiplicity of the Self.

Here is Jayatirtha's commentary to the same verse, based on Madhva:
where he cites Shankara's commentary above:

अत्र भगवता जीवानां परस्परमीश्वराच्च भेदे प्रतिपादितेऽपि *बहुवचनं
शरीरापेक्षया न त्वात्मापेक्षयेति वदतो *. भविष्यत्युत्तरम्।

Vedanta deshika (Ramanuja):

*देहभेदाभिप्रायेण बहुवचनम् नात्मभेदाभिप्रायेण इतिशङ्करोक्तं दूषयति
पारमार्थिकेति।*

The corresponding bhashya vaakya of Ramanuja that Deshika refers to is:

द्विचन्द्रज्ञानादौ तु चन्द्रैकत्वज्ञानेन पारमार्थिकतिमिरादिदोषस्य
द्विचन्द्रज्ञानहेतोः अविनष्टत्वाद् बाधितानुवृत्तिः युक्ता।

Thus the Ramanuja and Madhwa schools have taken the very vaakyas of
Shankara for refutation.  The above is just one example out of many from
the Bh.Gita itself.



> By the way, just curious to know, if objections in shatadushani are not
> applicable to the AV, then why there is rebuttal of the same text from
> Advaita sampradaya acharya !!??
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Sri Sastrigal, in the brief introduction of the Text says: Those who have
not studied Advaita thoroughly, if they are exposed to objections raised by
the Shatadushani, are very likely to conclude that the objections are
valid/true and Advaita indeed suffers from such defects. The text taken up
labours with a view to prevent this

warm regards
subbu

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