[Advaita-l] Binary nature of Jnana

Venkatraghavan S agnimile at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 02:03:12 EDT 2022


Namaste Chandramouli ji,

Thank you. Why in your view does the below bhAShya imply that the person
referred to is a sAdhaka?

Regards,
Venkatraghavan

On Tue, 5 Jul 2022, 06:51 H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>
>
> <<  ब्रह्मनिष्ठत्वमेव हि तस्य शमदमाद्युपबृंहितं स्वाश्रमविहितं कर्म ;
> यज्ञादीनि च इतरेषाम् ; तद्व्यतिक्रमे च तस्य प्रत्यवायः । >>
>
> <<  brahmaniShThatvameva hi tasya shamadamAdyupabRRiMhitaM svAshramavihitaM
> karma ; yaj~nAdIni cha itareShAm ; tadvyatikrame cha tasya pratyavAyaH |
> >>
>
> Translation  << The duty of his order of life consists of steadfastness
> itself in Brahman, supported by selfcontrol etc., whereas sacrifices etc.,
> are the duties for  others; the monk incurs sin by transgressing his own
> duties, (as much as others do by transgressing theirs) >>,
>
> The Bhashya observes here that brahmaniShThatvam is the only duty for this
> sAdhaka, who is not a jnAni  yet. Hence the conclusion.
> Regards


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