[Advaita-l] Whether darkness is bhava - Vivarana Prameya Samgraha of Shri Vidyaranya

Sudhanshu Shekhar sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com
Tue May 7 07:59:59 EDT 2019


Bhaskar ji,

And interestingly it is more of a question of Physics than of Philosophy.
Here is a claim that darkness is an object like table and chair and yet it
is not made of fluctuations of quantum fields or the modifications thereof
viz quarks and electrons but which comes into existence the moment you put
off the light. And it comes forth directly from Mula-karana like lightning
from clouds. झटिति.

Sudhanshu.


On Tue 7 May, 2019, 17:18 Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> This discussion on tamaH was regarded as important enough for all our
> Acharyas from SrI PadmapAda  to SrI vidyAraNya go to great pains to
> establish that avidyA is not abhAvarUpA. So although the discussion might
> seem to be a hair splitting one, it's not so .
>
> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> If this avidyA which is not abhAvarUpa something different from
> jnAnAbhAva, saMshaya or vipareeta jnana then it will not go by jnana.  In
> Geeta shankara compares this avidya to tAmasa pratyaya, AvaraNAtmakatvAt
> etc.  but clearly says vivekaprakAshabhAve tadabhAvAt.  But unfortunately
> later vyAkhyAnakAra-s introduced new avidyA which is something different
> from above and which has the Ashraya in brahman itself.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
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