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

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Ananta Chaitanya ji.


//यद्यपि ज्ञानं साक्षिवेद्यम्, तद्द्वारा तदवच्छेदको विषयश्च
साक्षिवेद्यः; *तथापि
ज्ञानाभावो न साक्षिवेद्यः, तस्यानुपलब्धत्वात्* ।//

This is from Advaita Siddhi, ajnAna-vAde-pratyaksha-pramANa-vichArah. It
remained to be mentioned in the last post by me.


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!
>

True. The siddhAnta is such that even if one piece is proved to be wrong,
the entire thing falls apart.

What is surprising is that despite taking his stand as that of prAk-abhAva,
he has not gone on to address the arguments already made in Advaita texts
by Nrisimhashrama Swami and Madhusudan Saraswati Swamiji. The arguments
comprehensively dismiss any idea of prAk-abhAva.

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.

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