[Advaita-l] प्रामाणिक बुद्धि एवं विमर्शः - by काव्यकण्ठ गणपति मुनिः

[Venkata sriram P]

Namaste Raghu,

Hope you have the book 'NAYANA' by Guntur Lakshmikantham Garu.  Pls refer the appendix of that.

rgs,
sriram

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On Tue, 24/7/18, Raghavender Upadhyayula <upadhyayula.surya at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] प्रामाणिक बुद्धि एवं विमर्शः - by काव्यकण्ठ गणपति मुनिः
 To: "Venkata sriram P" <venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>, "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 Date: Tuesday, 24 July, 2018, 10:44 AM
 
 Dear Sriram
 gaaru,
 I am delighted
 and equally happy to see you bring forth an important aspect
 pertaining to “प्रामाणिक
 बुद्धि एवं विमर्शः”. 
 The great soul
 (Ganapati muni), I heard, was a genuine seer. I have all his
 works at my disposal thanks to Dr. Sampadananda Mishra ji. I
 can feel the power of his compositions. 
 But, I did not
 find this particular lecture or for that matter any of his
 extempore lectures in the collected works published by
 Ramana Ashrama. I would be extremely grateful if you would
 mind sharing it with me for my personal study. 
 
 Thanks 
 
 Best Regards,
 Raghavender
 
 
 On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at
 7:13 PM, Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 wrote:
 Namaste,
 
 
 
 A thought provoking lecture by Shri.Kavyakantha Ganapati
 Muni on literary criticism.
 
 
 
 Shri.Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni was invited as “Guest of
 Honour” and presided the meeting that was held on the 
 
 occasion of Silver Jubilee Celebrations of
 Sri.Krishnadevaraya Andhra Bhasha Nilayam in the year
 1927.  This institute is presently in 
 
 Koti at Hyderabad.  The celebrations took place on the
 dates 16, 17 and 18th February 1927. 
 
 
 
 Shri.Ganapati Muni spoke extempore on various topics related
 to the objectives of the Andhra Bhasha Nilayam, 
 
 Saraswathi Aradhana Vidhi, Veda Swadhyaya, importance of
 Sanskrit and Telugu Language, 
 
 Literary Criticism and appreciation of poetry and
 literature.  Among such topics, was one on
 “प्रामाणिक बुद्धि एवं
 विमर्शः” 
 
 [a sort of premeditated thinking towards an authoritative
 source (a person, scholar etc.) versus criticism].  
 
 
 
 While speaking on these two aspects, Shri.Muni says that
 both are diametrically opposite to each other in
 methodology. 
 
 
 
 The prAmANika buddhi (प्रामाणिक
 बुद्धि) is the mindset that induces respect,
 hero worship towards an author. 
 
 His words become आप्त वाक्यं. Thus,
 results in 'prejudiced mindset'. With this
 prejudiced mind set, one cannot dare to view his works 
 
 critically which is considered to be blasphemy.  
 
 
 
 To speak in general, we show great respect and devotion
 towards our ancient scholars. This devotion evokes a
 “sense of prejudiced mind” 
 
 called प्रामाणिक बुद्धि that
 pushes the critical and analytical skills of the mind to a
 backseat.  This trend has continued down from ages till
 date 
 
 among several traditional scholars that has left them with
 intellect sans “critical analysis” (विमशॅ
 शक्ति).  Even today, our traditional scholars 
 
 look ancient scholars, devotees with great respect and awe;
 whereas; consider the critics to be blasphemous. Whoever
 tries to point the finger 
 
 towards ancient scholars are looked down upon as rebels. 
 This is due to the fact that we give more importance to 
 
 प्रामाणिक बुद्धि (authority)
 than विमर्शः (criticism) thereby became
 'slaves to emotions'.  It is to be noted that
 except Vedas (shruti), rest all the 
 
 literature should be viewed with critical analysis only.
 Even in Vedas too, one must use our critical analytical
 skills to tap the inner science and 
 
 higher truths hidden in them. We need not become emotional
 slaves to commentaries and works of ancient scholars.  
 
 
 
 The problem is that we give an authoritative status to a
 ancient commentators / authors / scholars even without
 studying their works, thereby, arriving at an erroneous
 conclusions without being subject to critical analysis owing
 to the respect and devotion towards them.  
 
 
 
 Thus, a healthy literary criticism has taken a back seat in
 our country.
 
 
 
 with regards,
 
 Sriram
 
 
 
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