[Advaita-l] 'Tamas' (Darkness) as a Dravya, matter

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 7:11 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hari Om V Subrahmanian ji,
>
> Could you pl share the PDF link.
>

https://archive.org/details/Sarva-darsana-sangrahaOfMadhavacharya

regards
subbu

>
> Regards,
> Sudhanshu.
>
> On Fri 7 Jun, 2019, 00:17 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Namaste
>>
>> A few weeks ago there was a discussion in this forum about the status of
>> 'tamas' in Advaita. In the introduction by the famous scholar Sri Vasudeva
>> Shastri Abhayankar to the book 'Sarva darshana sangraha' of Sri
>> Maadhavaachaarya (not Sri Madhvacharya of Dvaita vedanta). The portion
>> regarding 'darkness, tamas' is cited here: How various schools regard the
>> phenomenon of darkness. [Since images cannot be posted in this forum I am
>> providing this link where I have uploaded two images]:
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/subrahmanian.vaidyanathan/posts/2730538016959542
>>
>> According to Sri Abhayankar Sastri, ''तमः स्वतन्त्रं द्रव्यमिति माध्वा
>> अद्वैतवेदान्तिनश्च | " [Both Madhvas and Advaitins hold 'tamas' to be an
>> independent dravya (matter)."
>>
>>  I found that his very long introduction to this book is a great source of
>> knowledge spanning the various systems of philosophy on various aspects
>> such as jiva, jagat, ishwara.... I would recommend the study of this
>> introduction.
>>
>> warm regards
>> subrahmanian.v
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