[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: avidyA is adhyasta (superimposed) in AtmA

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Hare Krishna Bhaskar prabhu ji.

//I is quite stubbornness to find the kAraNa for the adhyAsa.//

//What is the cause of adhyAsa?? Obviously, it is the abhAva of the vidyA.//

So, notwithstanding the imputation of stubbornness, you have explained
abhAva to be the cause of adhyAsa!! Interesting!!!

Be that as it may, let us see whether your claim of vidyA-abhAva as cause
of adhyAsa is in accordance with BhAshya!

Now, this claim of yours positing abhAva as a cause is evidently negated by
BhAshyakAra as below:

निर्विशेषस्य त्वभावस्य कारणत्वाभ्युपगमे शशविषाणादिभ्योऽप्यङ्कुरादयो
जायेरन्; न चैवं दृश्यते ।

नाप्यभावः कस्यचिदुत्पत्तिहेतुः स्यात् , अभावत्वादेव, शशविषाणादिवत् ।

(BSB 2.2.26)

When BhAshyakAra has in so many words emphatically rejected any possibility
of abhAva as hetu, to hold that jnAna-abhAva is "obviously" the cause of
adhyAsa is naturally incorrect. Isn't it?

And hence, all the rest of your write-up is in contradiction to the BhAshya
and is accordingly summarily rejected.

If you wish point-wise rebuttal, please repudiate the argument adduced by
BhAshyakAra precluding the possibility of abhAva as a cause.

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.