[Advaita-l] Conviction that the Atman is distinct from the body

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 04:57:54 CDT 2016


On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Ravi Kiran <ravikiranm108 at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> It is a case of the śāstra-s conferring prāmānyam to his anubhava.
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>> It is this tattva chintanam that is glowing in his talks.
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> From His talks, if one gets the pramA of tattva ( that one has got through
> Sruti shravaNa) , there is nothing to refute this, as for as that one is
> concerned. For such a one, Bhagavan always shines as an epitome of GYAni.
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Yes. In fact that is the reasoning Vidyaranya adopts in concluding that
Yajnavalkya was indeed an aparoksha jnani: From his words (in the Bṛ.Up.)
one is able to get the correct knowledge of Brahman, etc.

regards
vs

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