[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Unambiguous statement of Akhandakara vritti in the Gita Bhashyam

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Raghav ji,

There is definitely a vRtti indicated in the bhAShya which removes avidyA.
That vRtti is named akhanDAkAra vRtti by later AchAryas, but the reference
to the vRtti is certainly present in the bhAShya itself.

Kind regards,
Venkatraghavan


On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, 18:59 Raghav Kumar Dwivedula, <raghavkumar00 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Venkat ji
> Thank you for the reply. I understand upon re-reading that the the
> pratiphalita-caitanyaM is being referred to as avagati is clear as the
> tIkAkAra says.
>
> I understand the carama vRtti which removes avidyA and its kArya is called
> AAV or jnAnaM or BKV
>
> As bhAShya says, य एव अविद्यादिदोषनिवृत्तिफलकृत्प्रत्ययः आद्यः अन्त्यः
> सन्ततः असन्ततो वा, स एव विद्येत्यभ्युपगमात्
>
> So bhAShya 100% supports the idea of AAV or BKV which is the carama vRtti
> in the SMN process.
>
> I understand you to be saying that the SSS position dismissing AAV is thus
> incorrect.
>
> Om
> Raghav
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Feb, 2025, 3:32 pm Venkatraghavan S, <agnimile at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Namaste Raghav ji,
>>
>> In this case, because the topic is "what is the object of the enquiry,
>> what is its result?", and the answer given is "the vRtti that culminates in
>> the consciousness free of ignorance", the vRttijnAna that is referred to
>> here by Shankaracharya is the akhaNDasAkshAtkAra vRtti, and not any
>> sa-pratibandhaka jnAna.
>>
>> The paryantam (culmination) here does not refer to a time lag between 1)
>> the vRtti and 2) the ignorance free consciousness which is the ultimate
>> puruShArtha, rather it is to say that *only* such a vRtti that
>> culminates in the ignorance free consciousness, can be the object of the
>> jnAtum icChA. No other vRtti culminates in avagati, and therefore, nothing
>> else is being sought here.
>>
>> It is the final jnAna, the antima pramANa and and the manifestation of
>> ignorance free consciousness-bliss as the result of that vRttijnAna, which
>> is the object of the brahma vichAra, being commenced with the first sUtra.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Venkatraghavan
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I meant the two words jnAna as vRtti and another word avagati is used in
>>> that jiGYAsAdhikaraNam.
>>>
>>> The second is what is being called avagati upon which moksha is
>>> immediate.
>>>
>>> The first is the jnAnam (the word jnAnam being used for a certain vRtti).
>>>
>>> On Tue, 11 Feb, 2025, 3:11 pm Bhaskar YR, <bhaskar.yr at hitachienergy.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Is the above tenable?
>>> >
>>> > praNAms
>>> > Hare Krishna
>>> >
>>> > If we are talking about paramArtha jnAna then there is no interval
>>> between
>>> > jnAna and mOksha. One who knows brahman becomes brahman itself says
>>> shruti
>>> > it does not say at later stage or subsequently after jnAna.  mOksha
>>> accrues
>>> > immediately after the dawn of the knowledge of brahman OR after
>>> complete
>>> > eradication of ajnAna.
>>> >
>>> > Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
>>> > bhaskar
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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