[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Does the mukta/jnani see the world?

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Raghav ji.

jIvanmukti is denied by MS in Advaita-siddhi.

It has been held by MS that there has never been any jnAnI so far as the
world is being perceived presently.

Both these assertion are in Eka-jIva-vAda vicharah of Advaita-siddhi.

jIvanmukti is admissible in nAnA jIva vAda only which is SDV.

It is not correct to hold jIvanmukti in DSV and ajAtivAda.

The above passage quoted by you does not directly mention that the
> प्रपञ्चसव्यत्वक्षतिकरीदृष्टिः ie विवर्तदृष्टिः is incapable of leading to
> mokSha and that *only द्वैतोपशान्ति: is the highest mokSha.*
>

MS says vivarta drishTi is परम्परया
मोक्षोपयोगित्वात् . It means that it cannot in itself lead to Moksha.


 It seems rather incongruent with bhAShya to say that द्वैतोपशान्ति (
> literally understood as the total cessation of द्वैतानुभव) is a sine qua
> non for jIvanmukti.
>

Please check EJV vicharah of Advaita-siddhi. MS says --

ननु-अनादौ संसारे कस्यचित्तत्त्वज्ञानं मुक्तिश्चाभून्न वा, आद्य इदानीं
संसारोपलब्धिर्न स्यात् । जीवस्यैकत्वात्, अन्त्ये संप्रदायासंभवेन
तत्त्वज्ञानासंभव इति चेन्न; न ह्यसांप्रदायिकत्वमुत्पत्तिविरोधि;
अपूर्वजातीयानुत्पत्तिप्रसङ्गात् , किंतु कारणासत्त्वं;
तन्नेदानीमुपदेष्टृत्वादिकारणस्य कल्पनासुदृढस्य सत्त्वात् । #जीवैक्यस्य
प्रमाणसिद्धत्वे संसारोपलम्भ एवातः पूर्वं तत्त्वज्ञानानुत्पत्तौ प्रमाणम्#

When jnAnI itself is not admitted, jIvanmukti ka kahna hi kya?


Might it be that the tIka by Sri MS is only his elaboration of the outlier
> view expressed in saMkShepa shAriraka rather than his own view per se, just
> as the tattvavaishAradI commentary on yoga sUtras by SrI vachaspati miSra
> need not imply his acquiescence in the yoga darshana view of
> prakRtinityatvaM etc.
>

I don't think SS is outlier view. The sequence of SDV, DSV and ajAti is
well recognised and appears everywhere.

Regards.

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