[Advaita-l] AvidyA as per BG 13-2 -- Discussion with AI

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste Raghav Ji,

I was using Gemini.

Incidentally, I had covered in an earlier discussion with the same AI,
Swami Sureswaracharya vArtika on this same issue of AvaraNAtmika ajnAna
being the cause for agrahaNa etc. I had posted a PDF doc on that in an
earlier post here recently. Just for your info in case you are interested.

Regards

On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Chandramouliji
> Thank you for the discussion with generative AI. May I ask which engine you
> used?
>
> The key passage which you discussed āvaraṅātmaka avidyā being the cause
> of even agrahaNa is noteworthy and it’s beyond the framework of SSS.
> (In the same BG13.2 context, Shankara continues from where you left off **
> तामसो �ह प्रत्ययः,
>
> आवरणात्मकत्वात् अ�वद्या �वपर�तग्राहकः, संशयोपस्थापको वा, अग्रहणात्मको वा *)
>
> Om
>
> Raghav
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 at 4:40 PM, H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Namaste.
> >
> > We have come across many posts here which maintain that as per Sri SSS,
> the
> > Bhashya on BG 13-2 admits of only three alternatives for avidyA namely
> > avidyA,samshaya and vipareetagrahaNa. And that it does not admit of a
> > fourth alternative namely ajnAna as the rootcause for the other three. In
> > fact Sri SSS claims this part of the Bhashya as pramANa for his postulate
> > dismissing any such cause for avidyA  admitted in Bhashya. Please see
> > following link wherein I have attached a PDF doc on my discussions with
> AI
> > on the topic . For whoever might be interested
> >
> > // https://groups.google.com/g/advaitin/c/x5bvz3WXgLY //.
> >
> > Regards
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