[Advaita-l] Shruti prAmANya and jnAna

Srinath Vedagarbha svedagarbha at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 07:25:54 CDT 2016


Namaste Venkataraghavanji,


On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste,
> In addition to what Praveenji said, where pramANa leads to a conclusion
> which is  apparently contradictory to what one gets from other pramANas,
> one necessarily has to adopt yukti to determine which is correct.
>
> This does not make the pramANa  paratah - only determine which pramANa has
> been applied incorrectly.
>
>
> parataH aspect is not for pramANa, but rather to prAmANya.

In the above example, the correcting knowledge (yukti in your case) is
bhAdaka and hence it acts like aprAmANya supplied from outside. prAmANya is
never supplied from outside.

/sv


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