[Advaita-l] Doubt the liberator

Praveen R. Bhat bhatpraveen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 03:34:22 EDT 2018


Correcting an oversight error please:
--doubt leads to a person becoming *liberated*?

Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat
/* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
That owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */


On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:59 PM Praveen R. Bhat <bhatpraveen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ​Namaste,
>
> Without getting into the argument pointwise, let me just try to make a
> case from an observation of the subject line itself which reads as "Doubt
> the liberator". Does this subject line mean:
> --express doubt about the liberator,
> --doubt itself is the liberator or
> --doubt leads to a person becoming a liberator?
>
> All three meanings or even more are possible grammatically and by
> extension. Who is the authority on interpreting this well?! Is it the OP
> and someone who the OP explains what his vivakSha was or it can be any Tom,
> Dick and Harry, who can analyse, discarding OP's explanation as well as of
> his students? The answer is hopefully clear. Of course, it may *appear*
> ridiculous after a few centuries that "free-interpretation" of even this
> thread done by anyone may not be right, but only by those whom the OP has
> taught, even by those interpreting variously among his own successors,
> especially when it is not a single sentence but several works.
>
> Kind rgds,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
> That owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
>


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