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

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Hari Om Praveen ji,

Pl don't think of my question as any aropa on Bhagvan Vidyaranya though I
agree -- after your statement -- that it may prima facie have looked like
that.

In any case, my "switch" to pratyaksha is not for convenience sake. It is
to explain the untenability of interpretation of sarva-Aloka-abhAva as ~(A1
& A2... & An).

Regards,
Sudhanshu.

On Sun 5 May, 2019, 09:57 Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Although it may seem convenient to switch to pratyakSha after making an
> Aropa on Bhagavan Vidyaranya as apparently using "bizarre logic", all this
> means is that darkness is not sarvAlokAbhAva either. If one were to use
> pratyAkSha too, I see darkness is a valid experience instead of I see
> absence of light.
>
> Kind rgds,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
> That owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 9:37 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > But is it the case? If even one light is switched off and other light is
> > switched on-- is darkness present? Is it not against pratyaksha?
> >
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