[Advaita-l] Gaudapada and Shankara hold the waking objects to be mithya

Venkatraghavan S agnimile at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 07:21:14 EDT 2023


Thanks Bhaskar ji.

Please can you explain the second half of my email - what is the meaning of
viShayaviShayiNor-itaretara-bhAvah...mithyAjnAna-nimittah.

Regards
Venkatraghavan

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 4:20 PM Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at hitachienergy.com>
wrote:

> praNAms Sri Venkatraghavan prabhuji
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> Hare Krishna
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> Do you mean that the meaning of mithyAjnAna is adhyAsa?
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> Ø     Yes, in short, Sri SSS does not want to see the split like mithyA
> ajnAna nimittaH etc which vyAkhyAnakAra did, according to his observation
> this adhyAsa is avidyA which is the main avidyA which bhAshyakAra deals in
> all through PTB.  adhyAsa is atasmin tadbuddhi, AtmAnAtma anyOnyAdhyAsa,
> this adhyAsa is called avidyA by pundita-s as we can see in adhyAsa
> bhAshya.  And ultimately this adhyAsa too  adhyArOpita on brahman for the
> teaching purpose.  Misconception (tappu tiLuvaLike in kannada), adhyAsa,
> vipareeta grahaNa, anyathAgrahaNa, vipareeta pratyaya etc. are synonyms.
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> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
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> bhaskar
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