[Advaita-l] Acollection of articles on Advaita - 'Voice of Shankara'.

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:16 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> There was an interesting article by Smt. S.Revathy (professor, Madras
> Sanskrit College) on Vedanta paribhAShA. She says that the very condition
> of an object being anadhigata is a sufficient criterion for a valid
> cognition. In other words, the condition of abAdhitatvam as a criterion for
> valid knowledge is superfluous.
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> Wherever the origination of the object is coeval with perception, it is
> termed jnAtaikasattAka and that puts all such cognitions such as cognition
> of shell in silver (here the object is jnAtaikasattAka), such cognitions
> are not valid knowledge at all, according to VP.
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> She quotes Shri Madhusudana Saraswati from to substantiate this from his
> work Advaita Ratna rakshaNa.
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> Incidentally the fact that the requirement that the object is to be
> ajnaatasattaaka (unknown prior to its cognition) - an implicit necessity
> for the condition of anadhigatatvam (unknown prior to its cognition -
> implying that the object exists but is unknown) to be satisfied, places the
> vedAnta paribhAShA epistemology clearly within the ambit of sRShTi dRShTi
> prakriyas.
>

That is an interesting observation Raghav ji.  In the Drishti srishti
prakriya the very pramana-prameya-pramiti operation is mithya.  All
knowledge/perception activity is  akin to dream perception.

regards
subbu

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> On Sun, 26 Apr, 2020, 12:50 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> > Here is a collection of articles on Advaita - 'Voice of Shankara'.
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> > http://advaitacentre.org/vos/VOL_26_1_2001.pdf
> > <http://advaitacentre.org/vos/VOL_26_1_2001.pdf>
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> > regards
> > subbu
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