[Advaita-l] Jnana and ajnana (Bhakti vs. Jnana)

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

Subbu-ji,

Looks like all of us misunderstood Rajaram's question. At least I thought he
meant to investigate avidyA (i.e. existence of avidyA, etc). It is now
fairly clear that he was asking something totally different, although his
wording was rather confusing.

Anyway, the point is that the sAkShi witnesses the ignorance of the pramAtA.
That is all there is to it.



On 5 July 2011 12:50, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Rajaram,
>
> Even this clarification/elucidation fails to make much appeal.  Why can't
> there be jnana and ajnana with respect to the same object?  I know 'a study
> of vyAkaraNa is useful for Vedanta and that I must engage myself in its
> study'.  This is the 'knowledge/jnana' I have of the 'object' called
> vyakarana.  Yet the very need for my putting in effort for its study
> presupposes my ajnana with respect to the same object: vyakarana.
>