[Advaita-l] [advaitin] ajnAna is different from jnAna-abhAva, mithyA-jnAna and mithyA-jnAna-samskAra

[Bhaskar YR]

Shankara accepts Avidya lesha in at least two places: BSB and BGB

praNAms
Hare Krishna

We have dealt with these bhAshya references umpteen times.  It has been well proven that the originator of terms like avidyAlesha, avidyAcchaye, avidyAgandha, avidyAvAsane, avidyAsaMskAra is adhyAsOpadAna vAdins i.e. mUlAvidyAvAdins.  jnAni is krutakrutya and he is brahman, brhama vidA brahmaiva bhavati.  If we want to paste any avidyAlesha to HIM then it is as good as pasting the avidyA lesha to parabrahman itself.  In all these bhAshya vAkya-s what we should understand is, by paramArtha jnAna the socalled avidyA will be completely eradicated that means there was / is / never be avidyA and ONLY Atma tattva is there and that is avidyA rahita paripUrNa / Samyak jnAna.  In this there is no question about existence of avidyA and its traces.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar