[Advaita-l] Duality of truth and anirvacanIya khyAti/sadasadvilakSaNa

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

Sorry for the long delay in responding.  In Shravana Masa, my anushtanas 
take 3 hours a day and before that there was preparing for Shravana masa 
and now preparing for Ganeshotsava.  Too much going on.


On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Srinath Vedagarbha wrote:

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> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 6:24 PM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>       We do not belive there is a ~p when it comes to Brahman; only
>       p. 
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> Isn't the position  "only P and there is no  ^p and it is just a convention"
> an assumption?

To be precise, it is an axiom.  The "law of excluded middle" is also an 
axiom.  It is possible to devlop many consistent systems of logic just by 
varying the axioms.

>  Using this assumption proving non-duality is indeed begging
> a question. 

Yes that is true.  That is why we have shruti.  If the validity of advaita 
could be proved by anumana alone, shruti would be redundant as a pramana.

This is not to say anumana is not important.  It is a tool in the manana 
phase of shravana manana nidhidhyasana.

> Even though its content is not true,  the imagination itself is true and
> conceived by him in a specific given dEsha-kAla. At the end we left with P
> (George Lucas) and his true imagination (^p). This is not a good example as
> it allows duality of kartu-karama, which Shankara ill-offered to admit in
> Brahman.
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_We_ know George Lucas is the author but Luke Skywalker does not.and 
cannot without some other source of knowledge.  If Yoda was a Rshi (Ok 
this analogy is getting very silly now) he could perhaps have intuited the 
existance of an author transcending his phenomenal universe but the point 
is logic alone would not have got him there.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>