[Advaita-l] [advaitin] T&D – Avidyā

[Bhaskar YR]

Thus Shankara holds that Avarana to be the basic problem which expresses as the three stated effects.

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Hare Krishna

The nature of avidyA categorically explained by bhAshyakAra, so at the first place it is not anirvachaneeya, if it is anirvachaneeya you (mulAvidyAvAdins) cannot announce/explain that there is brahmAshrita avidyA, it has AvaraNa, vikshepa shakti, capable enough to cover the brahmA capable to project non-brahman, exists in sushupti without the support of upAdhi etc. By holding it is anirvachaneeya you are making it more explicit and clearly describable concept😊 BTW, brahmAshrita avidyA is an alien theory to shankara’s prasthAna traya bhAshya, nowhere bhAshyakAra eulogizes the avidyA and says it has super powers like AvaraNa and vikshepa.  The word avaraNatmakatvAt in geeta does not warrant to introduce the special force called mUlAvidyA, shankara explains this tAmasO hi pratyaya pertaining to the intellect /antaHkaraNa alone, by any stretch of our grand imagination we cannot paste this AvaraNa to brahman or the self (kshetrajna/vijnAnAtma).  Atleast those who are giving the quotes with regard to avidyA from geeta bhAshya should know the background of giving the example of cataract which hinders the eyesight and not the seer.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar