[Advaita-l] [advaitin] PanvhadashI 2.35

[Bhaskar YR]

Are you saying Sri Bhagavatpada does not insist on even Brahman being necessary as adhishthAna for bhrAnti?

praNAms
Hare Krishna

After reading the above statement I am getting one more doubt, as per our experience,  for getting the bhrAnti  sarpa jnAna we need the adhishtAna rajju, here rajju is pratyaksha and an existing thing so that we get the sarpa bhrAnti jnAna in place of existing rajju or garland or crack on the groud or something object should be there.  But when we say jagat as a whole itself is bhrAnti, what is the adhishtAna for that ??  for that matter, as per advaita brahman is not pratyaksha, nor he is an objective reality, so without clear adhishtAna as an existing thing we may get the bhrAnti jnAna of anything at any point of time, without pratyaksha adhishtAna one may get the bhrAnti jnAna without any external stimulation one may get sarpa jnAna in place of nacre or silver in place of rajju etc.  So, to avoid this anishta tarka,  for the Kalpita jagat (sarpa) some adhishtAna should be there in concrete form (rajju) if that is not there the sAdrushyata between adhyArOpita and adhishtAna will fall on his head.  Hence it has been said for getting the sarpa bhrAnti jnAna, Ishwara srushti rajju (vyAhahArika nAma-rUpa jagat) should be there.  And for the rajju (nAma rUpa jagat) brahman (the sarvAdhishtAna) is abhinna nimittOpadAna kAraNa.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar