Vikalpa
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
vikalpa · conceptual construction · free of conceptual construction · nirvikalpa · option
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Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
The mental activity of conceptual construction/imagining (vikalpa), identified as the root of bondage, and its absence (nirvikalpa) as the mark of the liberated, purified mind.
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Vīramitrodaya
The Mīmāṃsā category of an interpretive 'option' between conflicting injunctions, treated in this passage as an undesirable consequence to be avoided.
And the avoidance of an option is not as in "one who is initiated does not give.
And these are not simple prohibitions (*pratiṣedha*), because it would lead to the undesirable consequence of an option (*vikalpa*).
Otherwise, even in "he does not use those two for the animal," there would be the undesirable consequence of the absence of a *vikalpa*.