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

kuntimaddi sadananda kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 7 06:35:07 EDT 2019


Subbuji - PraNAms
In the English translation of the book the last section that deals with Advaita doctrine is left out. 
'The system of Śaṅkara, which comes next in succession, and which is the crest-gem of all systems, has been explained by us elsewhere; it is, therefore, leftuntouched here.[467]E. B. C.' 
Hari Om!Sadananda

 

    On Friday, June 7, 2019, 03:35:05 AM EDT, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
 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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