[Advaita-l] Paramarthika - Vyavaharika

[Vinodh]

Excellent post, thank you for sharing!

On Thu 21. Apr 2022 at 13:25, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> This important premise of the Advaita, 'Paramarthika (Absolute reality) –
> Vyavaharika (parlance reality)', has been severely criticized by the
> post-Shankara schools. Madhava quotes some Buddhist text in his
> 'Tattvodyota' stating that this premise of Advaita is no different than
> that of Buddhists:
>
> न च शून्यवादिसकाशात् वैलक्षण्यं मायावादिनः । व्यावहारिकसत्वस्य
> तेनाप्यङ्गीकारात् ।
>
> सत्यं तु द्विविधं प्रोक्तं सांवृतं पारमार्थिकम् ।
>
> *सांवृतं* *व्यावहार्यं* *स्यान्निवृत्तौ* *पारमार्थिकम्* *॥*
>
> विचार्यमाणे नो सत्त्वं सत्त्वं चापि प्रतीयते ।
>
> यस्य तत्सांवृतं ज्ञेयं व्यवहारपदं च यत् ॥ इत्यादिना ।
>
> न च निर्विशेषब्रह्मवादिनः शून्यात् कश्चित् विशेषस्तस्य ।
>
> निर्विशेषं स्वयं भातं निर्लेपमजरामरम् ।
>
> *शून्यं* *तत्त्वमविज्ञेयं* *मनोवाचामगोचरम्* *॥*
>
> जाड्यसंवृतिदुःखान्तपूर्वदोषविरोधि यत् ।
>
> नित्यभावनया भातं तद्भावं योगिनं नयेत् ॥
>
> भावार्थप्रतियोगित्वं भावत्वं वा न तत्त्वतः ।
>
> विश्वाकारं च संवृत्त्या यस्य तत्पदमक्षयम् ॥ इत्यादि तद्वचः ।
>
>
>
> Dr.BNK Sharma notes in his Philosophy of Śrī Madhvācārya
> http://tinyurl.com/42vhs3d page 146 footnote that the origin of these
> verses is not stated by Madhva, but that they are from authentic
> Buddhist texts is derived from the works of other researchers.
>
>
>
> But we have this Paramarthika – Vyavaharika premise in the literature of
> Veda Vyasa in the same sense as these are employed in Advaita:
>
>
>
> These verses of Vishnu Purana uphold the Paramarthika – Vyavaharika’
> premise:
>
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>
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