[Advaita-l] Unambiguous statement of Akhandakara vritti in the Gita Bhashyam

[V Subrahmanian]

In the Bhagavadgita 2nd ch. we have this verse 21:वेदाविनाशिनं नित्यं य
एनमजमव्ययम् ।
कथं स पुरुषः पार्थ कं घातयति हन्ति कम् ॥ २१ ॥

2.21 O Partha, he who knows this One as indestructible, eternal, birthless
and undecaying, how and whom does that person kill, or whom does he cause
to be killed! [This is not a question but only an emphatic denial.-Tr.]

श्रीमद्भगवद्गीताभाष्यम्द्वितीयोऽध्यायःश्लोक २१ - भाष्यम्

…

अविक्रिय एव सन् बुद्धिवृत्त्यविवेकविज्ञानेन अविद्यया उपलब्धा आत्मा
कल्प्यते, *एवमेव आत्मानात्मविवेकज्ञानेन बुद्धिवृत्त्या विद्यया *
* असत्यरूपयैव* परमार्थतः अविक्रिय एव आत्मा विद्वानुच्यते । विदुषः………

Shankara says that this vRtti is not absolutely real, but unreal: asatyA.
This is no doubt vidyA, right / samyag jnanam.

Translation by Swami Gambhirananda: What is highlighted is the translation
of the Bhashya for the component 'vRtti' that has for its content the
Discriminative knowledge:

As on account of the lack of knowledge of the distinction between the Self
and the modifications of the intellect, the Self, though verily immutable,
is imagined through ignorance to be the perceiver of objects like sound
etc. presented by the intellect etc., in this very way,* the Self, which in
reality is immutable, is said to be the 'knower' because of Its association
with the knowledge of the distinction between the Self and non-Self, which
(knowledge) is a modification of the intellect.*

Anandagiri says: The Atman itself, in association with the Discriminative
knowledge-bearing vRtti, is called the 'Jnani'. (In contrast, the Atman
itself, in association with the ignorance-propelled illusory connection
with objects is known as the knower of objects.

तेनात्मोपलब्धा कल्प्यते। तच्चाविद्याप्रयुक्तमिथ्यासंबन्धनिबन्धनं
तथैवाध्यासिकसंबन्धेन* ब्रह्मात्मैक्याभिव्यञ्जकवाक्योत्थबुद्धिवृत्तिद्वारा
विद्वानात्मा व्यपदिश्यते* नच मिथ्यासंबन्धेन
पारमार्थिकाविक्रियत्वविहतिरस्तीत्यर्थः।

Thus, we have in the Bhashyam an irrefutable instance of akhaNDAkAra vRtti
stated.

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subbu