Vikalpa
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
vikalpa · conceptual construction · free of conceptual construction · nirvikalpa · option
in the texts
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.
[restored] [Having paid homage to that which is] without beginning or end, at peace, free of both being and non-being, free of conceptual construction (nirvikalpa (free of conceptual construction;
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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 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*.
Others, however, say that since the injunction and the *paryudāsa* have the same object, such as an eclipse, and are thus of equal strength, and it would lead to the flaw of an option, the *paryudāsa* of the night applies to a *tīrtha śrāddha*.