[Advaita-l] Pa~nchapAdikAchArya

[S Jayanarayanan]

--- K Kathirasan   NCS <kkathir at ncs.com.sg> wrote:

> Namaste Jayanarayananji,
> 
> You should study SSS's The Method of Vedanta to adequately
> understand
> his position on Padmapadacharya.

Thanks for the suggestion, but if I'm indeed mistaken in assuming
that SSS thought that the author of the Pa~nchapAdikA possessed
"malicious intent", can you please provide me with quotes from SSS's
works that conclusively proves otherwise?

http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2005-August/015567.html

"Its been written by some person with a malicious and mischievious
intention...to sidetrack from traditional methedology. So if its
indeed written by PadmapAdAcharya, then he being shishya of Shankara
is under debate/question."

> Moreover, the Jivanmuktiviveka
> (JMV)
> and Panchadashi seem to be from the pen of two different authors.
> In
> fact, the author of JMV quotes the Panchadashi as an authority. 
> 
> Pls study the critical introduction of Robert Alan Gooding for JMV
> at:
> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/ebooks.html 
> 

The link above did not contain the full thesis, but
http://www.advaitin.net/Discussion%20Topics/Vidyaranya%20-r_goodding.pdf
had it.

In any case, it does not matter that the author of the JMV =/= author
of the Pa~nchadaSI, but only that the author of the JMV = SV, which
Robert Alan Godding (not sure what kind of authority his words have)
seems to agree with.

In other words, my argument is: if the author of the Pa~nchapAdikA
was writing with "malicious intent", we have to conclude that the
author of the JMV was also writing with "malicious intent" (because
the latter quotes the former as an authority). Are we ready to accept
that the author of the JMV can possibly be writing with "malicious
intent"? If not, the author of the Pa~nchapAdikA cannot be writing
with "malicious intent".

Regards,
Kartik


> -----Original Message-----
> From: advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> [mailto:advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org] On Behalf Of S
> Jayanarayanan
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:11 PM
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Pa~nchapAdikAchArya
> 
> Sometime ago (August 2005) there was a discussion in this list on
> svAmI sachchidAnandendra sarasvatI's (SSS) contention that the
> author
> of the Pa~nchapAdikA wrote his commentary with a "malicious and
> mischievous intent".
> 
> I have been reading the jIvanmuktiviveka of svAmI VidyAraNya (SV),
> and find that SV has given great respect to the author of the
> PanchapAdikA, who is quoted as an authority on VedAnta. This should
> suffice in arguing that the author of the Pa~nchapAdikA could not
> possibly have written the text with anything but the best of
> intentions (else it would be tantamount to casting a slur on SV
> himself). The author of the Pa~nchapAdikA may well have been a
> disciple of Sankara, even PadmapAda as tradition holds.
> 
> Quotes from "Jivan Mukti Viveka" of Swami Vidyaranya, translated by
> Swami Moksadananda:
> 
> 1) Page 99:
> 
> nanu GYAnasya kaMchitkAlaM prArabdhena karmaNA
> pratibandhenaanivartakatve.api pratibandhakshaye
> lingadehanivartakatvaM bhavishhyatiiti chet.h .
> 
> "Objection: It may be that the knowledge, although neutralized by
> the
> impending prArabdha karma for sometime, will be effective in
> dissolving the subtle body when the impediment is exhausted."
> 
> na, pa~nchapAdikAchAryeNa 'yato GYAnamaGYAnasyaiva nivartakam.h'
> ityupapAditatvAt.h .
> 
> "Reply: We say no, because the author of the Panchapadika...has
> established logically that 'Knowledge is the remover of ignorance
> only'."
> 
> 
> 2) Page 101:
> 
> aGYAnasahabhAvaniyatAnAmabrahmatvAdInAmaGYAnashabdena
> pa~nchapAdikAchAryairvivakshitatvAt.h . anyathAnubhavavirodhaH .
> 
> "...the theory of Panchapadika that 'knowledge only destroys
> ignorance' is not contradicted by the concomitants - such as the
> notion of non-self and the like - of ignorance, are implied by the
> word ignorance; otherwise it will contradict experience."
> 
> 
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