[Advaita-l] Fwd: [advaitin] Sanskrit talk on Avidya - Exactly the ongoing discussions in our forums

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Raghav ji.


> Can you kindly elaborate
> "dharmI-pratiyOgI requirement is applicable when jnAna-abhAva is accepted
> to be known through either pratyaksha or anupalabdhi (without recourse to
> arthApatti). (The second option is neither our claim nor of the opponent.
> So, it is ignored.) "
>
> I understand jnAnAbhAva is not pratyaxa-gamya. But the above seems to say
> there are cases where it is pratyaxa-gamya?
>

NaiyAyikAs hold that abhAva is pratyaksha-gamya. MImAmsakAs hold that
abhAva is anupalabdhi-pramANa-gamya.

In response to their position, it is said by VPS that in both cases
dharmI-pratiyOgi-jnAna requirement will lead to vyAghAta in the case of
jnAna-abhAva.

Our position of jnAna-abhAva being known through
vyatirekI-anumAna/arthApatti or (arthApatti+anupalabdhi) ensures that this
pratiyOgI-jnAna requirement is not present. So, for us, ajnAna is the
sAdhana/upapAdya in vyatirekI-anumAna/arthApatti and jnAna-abhAva is
sAdhya/upapAdaka.

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.