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

[Raghavender Upadhyayula]

Namaskaaram Sriram gaaru,

Thanks for the pointer. I got the English version of the book from
archive.org. I am going through it.

Best Regards,
Raghavender

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Venkata sriram P <venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>
wrote:

> Namaste Raghu,
>
> Hope you have the book 'NAYANA' by Guntur Lakshmikantham Garu.  Pls refer
> the appendix of that.
>
> rgs,
> sriram
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 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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