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

[Bhaskar YR]

Please, how is avidya a tamasa pratyaya rupa for us? Avidya is purely an epistemolgical klesha - as adhyasa, it precedes guna, pratyaya and rupa respectively.

praNAms Sri MCC prabhuji
Hare Krishna

While explaining adhyAsa lakshaNa bhAshyakAra uses these terms, like smruti rUpa, tAmasa pratyaya etc. example geeta bhAshya 13.2 (tAmasO hi pratyaya.  It is like tAmasic notion, it is what obscures etc.  So while describing that this is antaHkaraNa dOsha bhAshyakAra himself explains this as smruti rUpa, tAmasa pratyaya etc.  Likewise elsewhere Sri SSS explains kAraNAvidyA and kAryAvidyA as well.  The agrahaNa is called kAraNAvidyA and anyathAgrahaNa called as kAryAvidyA.  And I don’t have to explain this further to you from Sri SSS's perspective as you are well aware of his view points.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar