[Advaita-l] Gaudapada and Shankara hold the waking objects to be mithya

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Sudhanshu ji,

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 11:10 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> //Are you saying that when you see the red flower and the plain crystal
> together, your eyes have no sannikarSha with the redness of the flower at
> all?//
>
> I am saying that my eyes have no sannikarsha with redness-of-crystal.
>
> Eyes have sannikarsha with redness-of-flower but NOT and CANNOT with
> redness-of-crystal.
>
> By this very reason, there is no gaurav dosha. Since there is no
> vyAvahArika redness-of-crystal with which eyes can have sannikarsha, we
> have to accept anirvachanIya redness-of-crystal.
>
There is indeed gauravadoSha. If not, you will have to explain why laghu
anyathAkhyAti doesn't work here!


Also one query: can there ever be jnAna-adhyAsa without artha-adhyAsa?
>
>> Yes. This redness of the crystal is the very example for it!

Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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