[Advaita-l] mithyA and abhAva chatuShTaya

Durga Janaswamy janaswamy2001 at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 1 00:32:09 CDT 2015


Hari Om,
Pranams

And Mandukya  is 2-satta vada   and not 3-satta vada?

thanks and regards
-- durga prasad

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> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:40:34 +0530
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] mithyA and abhAva chatuShTaya
> From: vmurthy36 at gmail.com
> To: janaswamy2001 at hotmail.com; advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
>
> Namaste
>
> In the Mandukya Karika Sri Gaudapada has said 'Adavante Ca Yan Nasti
> Vartamane'pi Tattatha'. The thing not existing in the beginning and
> end but only in the middle present time is not existing now also. If a
> thing has a Pragabhava प्रागभाव before and a Pradhvamsabhava
> प्रधव्ंसाभाव after it gets destroyed ignorant people think it is
> existing in the middle period. But Sri Gaudapada has said even in the
> middle period also it is not existing. Therefore the words like
> प्रागभाव and प्रध्वंसाभाव have no meaning.
>
> The word Abhava अभाव also is meaningless Paramarthataha परमार्थतः.
> Why? Because you can say something is absent if it is different from
> Sat. But Sat is never absent and there is nothing different from it
> and only Sat is there.
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Durga Janaswamy via Advaita-l
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> मिथ्या and अभाव चतुष्टय
>>
>> mithyA is characterized by abhAva chatuShTaya
>>
>> abhAva chatuShTaya are
>>
>> 1. prAgabhAva प्रागभाव
>>
>> 2. pradhavMsAbhAva प्रधव्ंसाभाव
>>
>> 3. anyonyAbhAva अन्योन्याभाव
>>
>> 4. atyantAbhAva अत्यन्ताभाव
>>
>>
>> Please explain abhAva chatuShTaya and mithyA. What is the exact sentence used to say that mithyA has abhAva chatuShTaya?
>>
>> thank you and regards
>> -- durga prasad
>>
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