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

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Raghav ji.

//But what is - "There can be no jnAna-abhAva in primary sense of the word
"jnAna" because of inherent contradiction" kindly elaborate.//

jnAna-abhAva can be either jnAna-sAmAnya-abhAva or jnAna-vishesha-abhAva.

In either case, jnAna-abhAva cannot be known because an abhAva cannot be
known unless the pratiyogI is known. The pratiyogI is jnAna-tva or
vishesha-jnAna-tva respectively.

The fact that jnAna-abhAva is known makes it impossible that jnAna is used
in the sense of reflected-chaitanya, because it implies presence of
jnAna-jnAna or vishesha-jnAna-jnAna which contradicts jnAna-abhAva and
vishesha-jnAna-abhAva respectively.

This problem would not arise if jnAna is understood in the terms of
jnAna-avachchhedaka-antah-karaNa-vritti. So, jnAna-abhAva in that case
would be jnAna-avachchhedaka-antah-karaNa-vritti, or
jnAna-avachchhedaka-avidyA-vritti. Both will be good enough.

Please note that all antahkaraNa-vritti/avidyA-vritti are not jnAna.

Further, please note that like mind/avidyA itself, the absence of
jnAna-avachchhedaka mind/avidyA-vritti is sAkshi-bhAsya and not
anupalabdhi-pramANa-gamya.


//Do you mean - jnAna of some thing or another is always occurring, since
AtmA is alupta-dRk, so we take jnAna-abhAva not in the primary sense but as
brahma-jnAna-abhAva?//

No. SwarUpa-jnAna is eternal. There can be no swarUpa-jnAna-abhAva.
JnAna-abhAva, which is being talked, has to be temporal.

So, it is necessarily jnAna-avachchhedaka-antah-karaNa-vritti or
jnAna-avachchhedaka-avidyA-vriti.

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.