Summary - Sutra 6

Date of Swadhyaya: 24 Jan
Attendees: Nimesh, Harshil, Atul Ji, Rekha Ji, Naveen Ji, Ruchi Ji, Pradip Ji, Sahil Ji, Vishal Ji, Parag Ji
Summary Prepared by: Shrish
Chapter No: 1
Sutra No: 6
Recorded lecture: Will be posting soon. Need to transfer from voice recoder
Summary:

Sutra 6: || Pramaan Nayair Dhigamah||

To understsand 7 tatva, we use Pramaan and Naya.

There are three things relevant to know here:
Paramaan: which is used to know things (Gyaan of Soul)
Prameya: the object which we know
Pramata: the one who knows. (= Soul)

Here in this Sutra we talk about Pramaan, which is actually the Gyaan of soul, using which we get to know things. Pramaan is of 2 types:
1. Swaarth,
2. Paraarth.

Swarth Pramaan = Using which knower knows himself
Pararth Pramaan = Using which knower communicates to others.

Analogy with Camera and computer: We used camera and computer to help explain the above concept. As Camera shoots a picture, which is stored in the camera. Now the same picture is transferred to computer using the following steps:
Step1 : Camera is connected to computer using wire.
Step2: Camera transmits the photo byte by byte through wire. Lets say it takes around 2 minutes to transfer
Step 3: Computer looks at all the bytes and reconstructs the photo and display.

We use the same process when we know something and want to communicate to someone. FOr example, If I went to seattle and acquired knowledge about the city, and now want to communcate to someone in San Jose. So I will use words and senetences to express the knowledge about Seattle and start talking to the other person. This process will contain many aspects of Seattle- for example - It looks beautiful. There are people from all culture. It rains 80% of times in a year. It is less densly populated than San Jose. etc.. And I take around 30 minutes to communicate my findings to the other person. After the communication is complete the other person is able to understand how the Seattle is.

As Camera transmitted information about photo in form of bytes, here I used words to commiunicate to the other person. These wordly knowledge is called 'Pararth Pramaan', and the knowledhe which I had about seattle in myself is 'Swarth Pramaan'. And after the other person has listened to, he also has the 'Swarth Pramaan' in himself.

Also the words which I used to explain Seattle- the sentence which described seattle from one perspective is called 'Naya'. And all aspects (Naya's) together help building the knowledge of Seattle in other person, which is called Pramaan.

There are 5 kind of Gyaan : Mati Gyaan, Shrut Gyan. Avadhi Gyaan, Manah Paryaya Gyaan, Keval Gyaan

In above 5 Gyaan, only Shrut Gyaan has both Swarth and Parath aspects, other 4 Gyaan are just Swarth Gyaan.

We also talked about the homework, and I will be posting about it in a different blog
Please let me know any typos in above.