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

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Sudhanshu Ji,

On Sun, 15 Sept 2024, 10:12 Sudhanshu Shekhar, <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I agree with you on the vritti-thing. However, some eka-deshI who accepts
> bhAvarUpa-avidyA, not SSSSji, can argue - let there be an
> abhAva-AkArA-avidyA-vritti. What is the problem? Then there can be
> perception of abhAva of by sAkshI.
>
> So, we need to respond to that -- this kalpanA of
> abhAva-AkArA-avidyA-vritti is not possible. Because, this would imply that
> abhAva is shining in an aparoksha-manner being sAkshi-vedya. Whereas abhAva
> is necessarily paroksha.
>

If one is going to postulate something, why not postulate anupalabdhi as
the karaNam for knowing jnAna abhAva also? That would apply to both jnAna
abhAva and ghaTa-paTAdi abhAva. Whereas I am assuming such an ekadeshi
agrees with ghaTa-abhAva being anupalabdhi gamya and only proposes abhAva
AkArA avidyA vRtti for the case of jnAna abhAva.

However, the more important point is the moment you accept anupalabdhi
pramANa's requirement for the cognition of jnAna abhAva, to say that there
is no jnAna at all, would be falsified. It is like going to a silent cave
and loudly declaring "How silent it is here". That very statement destroys
the silence. Similarly to hold that "jnAna abhAva is known" as an
avidyA-abhAva-vAdi is a logical fallacy.

Kind regards,
Venkatraghavan


> Regards.
> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
>