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

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Praveen ji.

Whether or not a vyAvahArika snake is placed alongside rope, or whether or
not the Aropya redness-of-flower is sannikrishTa, the point is -- the
redness-of-crystal is not eligible for contact with eye just as illusory
snake is not available for contact with eye.

Even if there is contact of eye with red flower or with real snake placed
beside --- the redness seen in crystal or the illusory snake cannot be seen
by eye -- because redness is not there in crystal, because snake is not
there in rope.

Hence, sAkshi-bhAsya illusory redness has to be accepted in crystal. That
is what the commentary says -- तस्मात् आरोप्यसन्निकर्षस्थले अपि......

On Sat, 29 Jul, 2023, 10:11 am Praveen R. Bhat, <bhatpraveen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sudhanshuji,
>
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 9:51 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <
> sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Praveen ji and Venkat ji.
>>
>> There is no redness in crystal with which there can be contact of eye.
>> And yet we perceive redness in crystal.
>>
>
> There are two cases even when redness is perceived in the crystal:
> 1) when the red flower is so close to the crystal that it is also seen
> while the crystal is being observed.
> 2) when the red flowed is close but not close enough to the crystal to be
> seen while the crystal is being observed.
>
> 1 is a case of anyathAkhyAti, while 2 is that of anirvachanIyakhyati.
>
>
>> This will necessarily imply the creation of anirvachanIya redness in
>> crystal just as we need that in case of illusory snake -- there is no
>> vyAvahArika snake there with which there can be contact of eye and yet we
>> see snake. So a sAkshi-bhAsya prAtibhAsika snake is accepted. Same logic
>> works here.
>>
>
> Similar rules can be applied to the above if a vyAvahArika snake is next
> to the rope which is being wrongly perceived as a snake, while both are in
> the scope of vision.
>
> Kind rgds,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
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