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

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Raghav ji,

In this case, because the topic is "what is the object of the enquiry, what
is its result?", and the answer given is "the vRtti that culminates in the
consciousness free of ignorance", the vRttijnAna that is referred to here
by Shankaracharya is the akhaNDasAkshAtkAra vRtti, and not any
sa-pratibandhaka jnAna.

The paryantam (culmination) here does not refer to a time lag between 1)
the vRtti and 2) the ignorance free consciousness which is the ultimate
puruShArtha, rather it is to say that *only* such a vRtti that culminates
in the ignorance free consciousness, can be the object of the jnAtum icChA.
No other vRtti culminates in avagati, and therefore, nothing else is being
sought here.

It is the final jnAna, the antima pramANa and and the manifestation of
ignorance free consciousness-bliss as the result of that vRttijnAna, which
is the object of the brahma vichAra, being commenced with the first sUtra.

Kind regards,
Venkatraghavan

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> I meant the two words jnAna as vRtti and another word avagati is used in
> that jiGYAsAdhikaraNam.
>
> The second is what is being called avagati upon which moksha is immediate.
>
> The first is the jnAnam (the word jnAnam being used for a certain vRtti).
>
> On Tue, 11 Feb, 2025, 3:11 pm Bhaskar YR, <bhaskar.yr at hitachienergy.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Is the above tenable?
> >
> > praNAms
> > Hare Krishna
> >
> > If we are talking about paramArtha jnAna then there is no interval
> between
> > jnAna and mOksha. One who knows brahman becomes brahman itself says
> shruti
> > it does not say at later stage or subsequently after jnAna.  mOksha
> accrues
> > immediately after the dawn of the knowledge of brahman OR after complete
> > eradication of ajnAna.
> >
> > Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> > bhaskar
> >
> >
> >
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