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

[V Subrahmanian]

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 8:28 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste Subbuji,
> The nAsadIya sUkta also refers to the existence of a bhAvarUpa tamah /
> mUlAjnAnam.
>

Yes, Venkat ji, this is also a shruti pramana for the tamas, inner darkness
or ajnana.




> I had made a few posts in the past on the sAyaNa bhAShya of the nAsadIya
> sUkta occurring in the taittirIya brAhmaNa.
>
> The specific mantra (the taittirIya brAhmaNa version of the mantra) is :  आसीत्तमसा
> गूढमग्रे प्रकेतम् । सलिलँ सर्वमा इदम् । तुच्छेनाभ्वपिहितं यदासीत् ।
> तमसस्तन्महिनाजायतैकम् ।
>
> https://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2017-March/044743.html
>

This will an interesting revisiting of the topic.

regards
subbu

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> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
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