[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Pratyabhijna and avidyA vRttis of suShupti

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste.

Reg  //  Because the sAxI merely
illuminates the vRttis but cannot carry impressions and "record" what is
experienced - a function usually assigned to antaHkaraNa //,

Illumination by sAkshi leads to registering the contents of the vritti,
whether avidyA vritti or antahkaraNa vritti,  either in antahkaraNa if it
is active or in avidyA itself if antahkaraNa is in bIja avasthA. However,
since avidyA is the kAraNAvastha for the antahkaraNa, whatever contents of
the vritti  were registered in avidyA during the bIja avasthA of the
antahkaraNa is available for the antahkaraNa when it becomes active again.
Regards

On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 10:42 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> The experience of deep sleep of "I slept happily and did not know anything"
> is explained by Sri MS as being experience of three 'avidyA vRttis' and not
> antaHkaraNa vRtti, since the antaHkaraNam is in a bIja avasthA.
>
>
> I had a doubt about how if these vRttis are not somehow registered by sUxma
> antaHkaraNa vRttis, how is their experience recollected on waking? Can we
> say antaHkaraNa is also rudimentarily active in sleep for it to register
> the experience of these *avidyA vRttis*. Because the sAxI merely
> illuminates the vRttis but cannot carry impressions and "record" what is
> experienced - a function usually assigned to antaHkaraNa.
>
> A similar situation exists in rope-snake example, with the absence of
> indriya sannikarsha of snake, necessitating the postulate of the
> avidyA-created snake (arthAdhyAsa) and it's corresponding experience
> through the avidyA vRtti of that snake (jnAnAdhyAsa).
>
> Here too, I presume the antaHkaraNam (since it's active in waking)
> immediately registers these avidyA vRttis and so we can recollect having
> seen the snake even the next day.
>
> Can we thus assume some mechanism whereby the antaHkaraNa too
> registers/records the avidyA vRttis seamlessly?
>
>
> Om
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