[Advaita-l] Sastra's Ability To Remove Ignorance

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Yes - hence my question. If you have to teach me that a clay pot doesn't shine, you have to first know what a clay pot looks like. How can the  sastras have a positive knowledge of brahman to negate non-brahman? 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:55:35 
To: <rajaramvenk at gmail.com>; A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta<advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Sastra's Ability To Remove Ignorance

My question is how can sastras have a positive knowledge of Brahman so 
that they can teach us what is and not Brahman?

praNAms
Hare Krishna

shAstra does not teach brahman as such & such a thing!!  it only removes 
the ignorance that jeeva has on brahman due to avidyA.  shAstra just 
removes the avidyA and as soon as this avidyA goes self-evident Atman 
shines on its own.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar