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

[Michael Chandra Cohen]

Namaste Sudhanshuji & Venkataraghavan, Your questions are better answered
in the linked paper and/or her full dissertation, not yet public. SSS and
Dr. Hegde have a scholarly consensus and are not just some social media
critique that can be easily dismissed.

Here's a link to an upcoming Academic Conference on SSS's restorations:

https://www.vedantaforum.org/events





On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 10:45 AM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Michael,
>
> Thanks, but I am not interested in continuing a discussion where a person
> makes erroneous assumptions about my position and then concludes that what
> follows from such a position is wrong.
>
> Illogical and anirmoksha you say? So be it.
>
> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
>
>
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2026, 23:00 Michael Chandra Cohen, <
> michaelchandra108 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Venkataraghavan sir,
>> SSS's only interest is presenting PTB as intended. Further, purvapaksa
>> based on tarka and sabda is the traditional manana to arrive at that
>> intention. There is no one to converted here - we all have the same
>> interest. However, endowing vyvarhara with a relative reality is contrary
>> to PTB, illogical and an anirmoksa position, as SSS points out.🙏
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 9:18 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <
>> sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Namaste Michael ji.
>>>
>>> It is not true that I have not studied PSA - I have not studied like you
>>>> have no doubt but that is hardly the point.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The tell me, how do you agree with Dr Hegde that PSA postulate the
>>> ontological reality for world without any standpoint. I have given citation
>>> of PanchadashI and Tejobindu commentary which clearly postulate that
>>> avidyA/world are mithyA from avidyA-drishTi, and tuchchhA from
>>> Brahma-drishTi. There are hundreds other supporting citations. I don't want
>>> to flood the mail. It is actually common sense. Snake is illusory from the
>>> frame of reference of non-rope. Snake is tuchchha from
>>> rope-frame-of-reference.
>>>
>>> How can you not know this basic postulate of PSA and venture to refute
>>> them by relying on half-baked articles of Dr Hegde and incorrect
>>> understanding of SSSS ji.
>>>
>>> Just appreciate what you are doing. In the name of some
>>> shuddha-ShAnkara-prakriyA, you are contradicting common sense as well as
>>> omniscient SAyaNAchArya, the commentator of VedAs. For what purpose? For
>>> what use?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
>>>
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