Monthly Archives: March 2016
AdvaitaSiddhi – Lecture 5 – Part 2
After this the entire discussion is based on Nyayamritakara’s arguments against falsity. The revered author establishes the purvapaksha to establish the siddhanta point of view. To understand mithyatwa one has to first understand the characteristics of mithatwa, i.e. the lakshan of mithyatwa. In Nyaya we have the famous saying “lakshan pramanabhyam vastu siddhi na cha … Continue reading
AdvaitaSiddhi – Lecture 5 – Part 1
Prapanchya mithyatwe anumana prayoga: After all this discussion , the text finally arrives at the syllogery that establishes the falsity of the world. Madhusudana Saraswatji finally states the inference used to establish the falsity of the empirical world. It should not be supposed, that this is His invention; it was developed by another great Acharya … Continue reading
AdvaitaSiddhi – Lecture 4 – Part 2
The revered author now justifies the importance of the two other adjectives “sattwen pratiti arhang “ and “chidbhinang” Itera visheshanadwayang tu tucha brahmini cha vadhvaranya adarniyameva What happens if we use only the term ”brahmajnaiteraabhadhya” ? Then the paksha will be defined over both Brahman and the asat (like sky-flower). Sattwen pratitiarhang negates tucha/aleek/asat which … Continue reading