[Advaita-l] [advaitin] 'Avidya' is not 'only' Adhyasa; it's more than that

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms
Hare Krishna

This rule is applicable only for a sAdi entity. Not for an anAdi entity. That is the definition of anAdi. Insisting on a cause for anAdi is invalid by definition //.


Ø     After a long gap reading the mails today.  This one caught my attention.  This is interesting to note that even in the rival school there is an opinion that adhyAsa does not need a cause as it is anAdi-ananta and naisargika (svAbhAvika)!!  This is what even Sri SSS also insisting.  So now the question is how this stand of mUlavidyAvAdins suit to their claim that adhyAsa need a material cause!!??  Anyway as per Sri SSS fundamental avidyA (adhyAsa) involved in all our empirical vyavahAra (naisargikOyaM lOka vyavahAraH) does not need a cause as this is anAdi.  Nor there is a burden to prove this adhyAsa vAda through pramANa as this is in our anubhava and more over the convention of the distinction of pramANa-s and prameya-s itself pre-supposes avidyA or adhyAsa.  Without identifying ourselves as pramAtru (which is again adhyAsa) there is no business for pramANa and prameya.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar