[Advaita-l] On anubhava as a pramANam

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Thank you for the ratnaprabhA reference, Venkatraghavan ji. Do you know of
any way to search the advaita-L archives.
Om


On Sun 1 Jul, 2018, 11:10 PM Venkatraghavan S, <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste,
> This is an interesting line in the Shankara bhAShya.
>
> The import of this sentence is wonderfully explained in the ratnaprabhA
> gloss. It is said there:
>
> जिज्ञास्ये धर्म इव जिज्ञास्ये ब्रह्मणीति व्याख्येयम् । अनुभवो
> ब्रह्मसाक्षात्काराख्यो विद्वदनुभवः । आदिपदान्मनननिदिध्यासनयोर्ग्रहः ।
>
> तत्र हेतुमाह -
>
> अनुभवेति ।
>
> मुक्त्यर्थं ब्रह्मज्ञानस्य शाब्दस्य
> साक्षात्कारावसानत्वापेक्षणात्प्रत्यग्भूतसिद्धब्रह्मगोचरत्वेन
> साक्षात्कारफलकत्वसम्भवात् , तदर्थं मननाद्यपेक्षा युक्ता । धर्मे तु
> नित्यपरोक्षे साध्ये साक्षात्कारस्यानपेक्षितत्वादसम्भवाच्च श्रुत्या
> निर्णयमात्रमनुष्ठानायापेक्षितम् ।
>
> Regards
> Venkatraghavan
>
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, 17:00 Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Namaste
>> In the well-known passage
>>  न धर्मजिज्ञासायामिव श्रुत्यादय एव प्रमाणं ब्रह्मजिज्ञासायाम् । किन्तु
>> श्रुत्यादयोऽनुभवादयश्चयथासम्भवमिह प्रमाणम् ,
>> अनुभवावसानत्वाद्भूतवस्तुविषयत्वाच्च ब्रह्मज्ञानस्य
>> (Unlike in the case of dharmajiGYAsA dealing with svargaloka etc., here in
>> the case of enquiry in to brahman, it's not as if shruti etc., alone are
>> the pramANas. In fact, not only shruti etc., but anubhava etc., are also
>> wherever applicable pramANam. Because it all culminates in anubhava
>> (dRShTa
>> phalaM) and is dealing with a pre-existing Reality, not something to to be
>> produced, reached etc.)
>>
>> There was an article on the above topic by Rama ji. Is a link to that
>> document available ? Any help is appreciated .
>>
>> Also is there any option to search the advaita archives. I seem to have
>> missed seeing any such option .
>>
>> Thank you
>> Om
>> Raghav
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