[Advaita-l] [advaitin] How jnAnAbhAva can cause adhyAsa !!??

[Ananta Chaitanya [Sarasvati]]

Namaste Sudhanshuji,


On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 5:00 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste,
>
> I rechecked SugamA and my memory served me right. It is indeed stated
> there by SSS ji that jnAna-abhAva, termed by him as ajnAna, is prAk-abhAva.
>
> *तर्हि कतमोऽयं ज्ञानाभाव इति चेत् । प्रागभाव एवास्तु । *
>

...

>
> Further, Swamiji did not realize that by making jnAna-abhAva a
> sAksi-vedya-vastu, he is positing its bhAvatva. Those who hold jnAna-abhAva
> as abhAva can never accept its upalabdhi. It has to be anupalabdha.
>
>
यद्यपि ज्ञानं साक्षिवेद्यम्, तद्द्वारा तदवच्छेदको विषयश्च साक्षिवेद्यः; *तथापि
> ज्ञानाभावो न साक्षिवेद्यः, तस्यानुपलब्धत्वात्* ।
>

SSSji has landed himself into a nice little Catch22 situation. If his
jnAnAbhAva is shUnya like putrAbhAva of a vandhyA, the putratulyajnAna can
never be born, leading to anirmokShaprasanga; OTOH, if it is prAgabhAva,
there is bhAShyavirodha of his misnamed SSP, and his entire refutation of
bhAvarUpatva of ajnAna falls like a castle of cards!

Kind rgds,
--Ananta Chaitanya
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