Sridakshinamurtistotram (Part IX –f)

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Subbuji wrote:

 

 

Thus, in the above analysis, we see: (a) In the

 

waking, with regard

to the common objects, the `pramanas' reveal the

 

`adhishThAna'

(Substratum) alone; the `is'ness of the object is what

 

comes to

light. (b) In the dream, the pramanas do not reveal

 

any `real'

objects. They, the pramanas, become sublated along

 

with the objects

upon waking. © Even in the case of an illusion like

 

rope-snake,

the pramana that reveals the substratum, the rope, is

 

deemed to be

revealing the Super Substratum, the Atman alone, as

 

in the case of

the dream-pramanas which actually are revealing the

 

Atman alone

which are wrongly seen in a dream as the various

 

objects.

 

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Namaste Subbuji,

When you go back to B.S.B. II.ii.29 and read it

carefully you will find that Shankara specifically

rejects and refutes the idea that there is operative in

the dream any pramana.

"Moreover, dream vision is a kind of memory,

 

whereas the visions of the waking state are forms

of perception (through valid means of knowledge)."

 

It's all a perfectly straightforward position

and is also stated in his commentary on the Brh. Up.

 

Best Wishes,

Michael.