[Advaita-l] [advaitin] How jnAnAbhAva can cause adhyAsa !!??

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms Sri Sudhanshu prabhuji
Hare Krishna

  1.  Is adhyAsa jnAna-abhAva?

  *   Have you not read my previous email with regard to this!!??  jnAna abhAva is nepa mAtra cause for adhyAsa it is not in the sence that this jnAnAbhAva is upAdAna or nimitta. It only gives room for adhyAsa like empty vessel giving room to anything and everything.
I am asking a simple question. Is adhyAsa identical to jnAna-abhAva? Yes or no?


Ø     It is really very strange that you are asking the question and want the answer also as per your expectations.  Do you really think these type of arbitrary style of discussion really work when both parties saying entirely two different things !!?? As said earlier, without bit of explanation these queries cannot be answered blindly yes or no…Despite clarifying innumerable times the difference between jnAnAbhAva and vipareeta grahaNa if you are still asking this question means you are still enjoying this question without want of any answers /  explanations.



  1.  Is jnAna-abhAva triguNatmaka?

  *   Let me explain this with one more example, if a person does not have the knowledge about his svarUpa, his intellect lacks this knowledge, the absence of this knowledge is what is called jnAna abhAva, (an emptiness in the intellect), this absence of knowledge would give room to that person to think that I am foolish, lethargy (tamasic guNa), I am great logician, I am great scholar I can defeat anyone in debates, no one can match my intellect etc. (rAjasic guNa),  likewise if he is saMskAravanta, he would also entertain sAtvik thoughts like I am bhakta, I am dAsAnudAsa to my upAsya devata etc. These existent thoughts in the absence of knowledge are born out of triguNAtmika mAya as per individual jeeva’s vidyA karma and pUrvaprajna.   But when ‘king knowledge’ enters his mind all these wrong perceptions about himself would vanish.  BTW triguNAtmika mAya is not avidyA as per the dictionary of Advaita vedAnta / siddhAnta😊

OK. So the pinpointed question is - is this jnAna-abhAva (whatever that may be, emptiness/absence/whatever) triguNAtmaka? Answer in yes/no please.


Ø     You do not know that there exists rope and seeing snake instead, your not knowing the rope ( or lack of rope knowledge) is triguNAtmika??


  *   and adhyAsa is not like that it is jnAna virOdhi when jnAna dawns no place for avidyA/ajnAna.
I am asking about mango and you are answering about tamarind. I am asking - is adhyAsa triguNAtmaka? Answer in yes/no please.


Ø     Again same queries from dictator 😊 I don’t think I have to cater your demands here.  I have already explained how an idle mind is a devil’s workshopor an empty vessel can accommodate anything or everything.  Whether to decide this devil’s workshop is triguNAtmika or not the choice is left to you.  Seeing the snake in place of rope is adhyAsa ( a misconstruction in mind. Atasmin tadbuddhiH) you decide whether seeing the snake in place of rope is triguNAtmika or something else.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar