[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Shankara compares and contrasts Prātibhāsika, Vyāhārika and Pāramārthika

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Michael ji.

I don't believe Dr. Hedge denies the standpoints presented in your
> citations (though I could not access SLS reference). Rather, she is
> pointing elsewhere:
>

I think you are going beyond her written words and are somehow able to
access what she has in mind. Some supernatural power I must say. She has
categorically erroneously written that PSA assign ontology to world without
any standpoint.

By redefining vyāvahārika and pāramārthika not merely as
> standpoint-relative conditions of cognition but as effects standing in
> different relations of sameness or difference of reality to their causes
> (sama-sattā / viṣama-sattā), the PSA converts an epistemic distinction into
> an ontological hierarchy.
>

Bhai sahab. //Conditions of cognition// - is itself non-Brahman and has to
fall within either vyAvahArika or prAtibhAsika. //Epistemic// has to be
within vyAvahArika/prAtibhAsika.

Sir, again repeating, both vyAvahArika/prAtibhAsika have no sattA. They
don't exist. SattA appears belonging to them. That sattA is of Brahman.


Once that move is made, the world can no longer coherently be described as
> anirvacanīya, since it has already been assigned a determinate, though
> lower, degree of reality.
>

Sir, you have problems with the word sattA? That sattA is of Brahman. The
sattA appearing in snake is of rope. That sattA is not of snake.

Why it cannot be described as anirvachanIya?

Thus the three-sattā scheme ceases to be merely methodological and becomes
> a graded metaphysics, introducing precisely the “degrees of reality” that
> SSS rejects.🙏
>

These are all useless stuff.

I am amazed that whole lot of other darshanAs such as VishishTAdvaita,
Dvaita etc criticize us that we treat world to have no existence being
illusory. And here SSSS Ji and his followers think that PSA ascribe reality
to the world.

Sir, SSSS ji has got it terribly wrong. The Tejobindu reference and the
PanchadashI reference which I mentioned has the potential to clear all
possible doubts. I don't have anything further to say.

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.