[Advaita-l] what is abhava?

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Michael

SSSS ji says in SugamA as mentioned by Sudhanshu ji

 तर्हि कतमोऽयं ज्ञानाभाव इति चेत् । प्रागभाव एवास्तु ।
(Translation - In that case, *which type* is this jnAna-abhAva ?  (Answer)
It is prAk-abhAva, prior non-existence. )

As you know the prior non-existence of any entity is not accepted in
siddhAnta, since satkAryavAda is adopted atleast provisionally.

Om
Raghav













The web-link is
https://adhyatmaprakasha.org/php/bookreader/templates/book.php?type=sanskrit&book_id=008&pagenum=0001#page/45/mode/1up

On Sun, 15 Sept, 2024, 3:32 pm Michael Chandra Cohen via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Mimamsa speaks of 4 kinds of abhava - prior, subsequent, mutual and
> absolute. Aren't these all material abhava-s?  When SSSSji refers to
> abhavarupa avidya, which abhava is he referring to?
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