[Advaita-l] [advaitin] what is abhava?

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste ji

On Mon, 16 Sept, 2024, 8:22 pm Sudhanshu Shekhar, <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Raghav ji.
>
> //Does what you said about atyantAbhAva alone being acceptable in
> siddhAnta(as in the case of mithyA rope-snake and tucchaM horns of a hare
> entities),still stand?//
>
> Yes.
>
> However, there are two views in atyanta-abhAva as well.
>
> One, atyanta-abhAva is adhikaraNa-swarUpa.
>

In other words,
experiencing the "atyantAbhAva of snake " == experiencing the "rope"

Btw, How does this work in the case of a vikalpa (tucchaM entity)  like the
horns of a hare. The adhikaraNam is just the mind there which is sAxi-vedya?


> Second, atyanta-abhAva is different from adhikaraNa.
>

i.e., the atyanta-abhAva of snake is not just the rope.


> The first one is the preferred view.
>
> In second view also, for pAramArthika-abhAva, it is necessarily
> adhikaraNa-swarUpa.
>
You mean, even in the second view, when in the case of jagat taken as a
whole,  entire jagat is sublated as mithyA, then only adhikaraNa svarUpa
brahman remains as the truth.

But (as per what you wrote), in the vyAvahArika examples of atyantAbhAva,
some "apparent" level of reality is allowed for the snake. Is that what you
meant by the "second view".

For only vyAvahArika-abhAva, we accept it to be atyanta-abhAva only (and
> not the other three type) and different from adhikaraNa.
>

Is this not the same as the second view?


> Regards.
> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
>