All that glisters is not gold.

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Namaste Advaitins,

 

If we apply the fundamental view of V.P. re perception as the going out

of the mind to the object then the understanding of the tangles

concerning confusion/illusion/delusion becomes clearer. For a start we

will shed the muddle about the perception of unreal or illusionary

objects. This form of words or the linking of the concepts of illusion

and object in any language is in itself the source of the puzzlement

viz. how can something be at one and the same time an object and

unreal. This paradox is an error of juxtaposition. In fact you are

suffering an illusion pure and simple. The very fact of being able to

perceive brings in its train the ability to suffer illusions.

 

When the mind goes out and takes the form of something or other there is

the base assumption that what it is taking the form of is an object. I

believe this to be the meaning behind the somewhat condensed expression

in V.P. pg.146: " The validity of knowledge is also spontaneously

apprehended. " That base assumption is a two edged sword because it

gives illusion a purchase. The glint of silver IS the glint of money.

In advaita there are no free floating attributes that we infer must

belong to something or other. Inference and perception are different

and are two distinct means of knowledge according to V.P. So the glint

IS the glint of silver until it turns out to be the glint of nacre. How

does the defect in perception arise? Essentially all the elements of a

successful perception are not present i.e. " owing to an absence of the

totality of causes of apprehending the substratum of the validity " . To

put it simply you have moved too quickly to claim the object as silver

before all the other perceptual indications of silver were achieved.

You thought you were crossing the finishing line when you had a few more

laps to go.

 

On an associated note: do any of the members know of a translation of

the vartika on adhyasa bhasya by Sureswara on line or otherwise?

 

Best Wishes,

Michael

[Guest guest]

On an associated note: do any of the members know of a translation of

the vartika on adhyasa bhasya by Sureswara on line or otherwise?

praNAms Hare Krishna

I dont think Sureshwara has written vArtika on adhyAsa bhAshya of shankara ..Sri Sureshwara has written vArtika only on bruhadAraNyaka & taitirIya bhAshya of shankara. Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

bhaskar

[Guest guest]

Namaste Bhaskar-ji and Michael-ji.

 

In the Adhyasa Bhashya link quoted in my post 41373, Shri Subhanu

Saxena has referred to Sureshwara's vartika. It doesn't say which

vartika!

 

Perhaps, Bhaskar-ji might recognize the relevant verse below quoted

by him and be able to locate the correct reference:

 

Atah pramANato'shakyA'vidyA'syeti vIxitum

KIdrshI vA kuto vAsAvanubhUtyekarUpatah

Sambandha Vartika 184

 

 

Best regards.

 

Madathil Nair

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advaitin , Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr wrote:

> I dont think Sureshwara has written vArtika on adhyAsa bhAshya of

shankara

> ..Sri Sureshwara has written vArtika only on bruhadAraNyaka &

taitirIya

> bhAshya of shankara.