A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Pratibhasika
This page describes Pratibhasika which is located on page 558 of the second volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Pratibhasika” according to 14 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Mandukya Upanishad (Gaudapa Karika and Shankara Bhashya) [by Swami Nikhilananda]
Gaudapada does not make any distinction between the dream (pratibhasika) and waking (vyavaharika) experiences. Compare Karika 14 (1st chapter). 2 Subject-object—The two factors, namely, the seer and the seen, are equally present in both the waking and the dream states. The dream and the waking experiences are identical because both are characterised by the same condition, viz., the characteristic of “being perceived”. Therefore they, both, are unreal....
Read full contents: Mandukya Karika, verse 2.5
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]
The difference between vyavaharika and pratibhasika is that the dosha of the vyavaharika perception is neither discovered nor removed until salvation, whereas the dosha of the pratibhasika reality which occurs in many extraneous forms (such as defect of the senses, sleep, etc.) is perceived in the world of our ordinary experience, and thus the pratibhasika experience lasts for a much shorter period than the vyavaharika....
Read full contents: Part 16 - Vedanta Theory of Illusion
Preceptors of Advaita [by T. M. P. Mahadevan]
Traditional Advaita holds that while pratibhasika objects are modifications of the perceiver’s own ajnana, vyavaharika objects are modifications of maya, which is the common basis of the ajnana of individuals. But the drishti-srishti-vadin denies any need to posit a common factor called maya....
Read full contents: 35. Prakashananda
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