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

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

In Physics there is Dark Matter. This proves beyond all doubt Bhava Rupa
Tamas only. It is 85% of matter in the Universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 8:28 PM Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Subbuji,
> The nAsadIya sUkta also refers to the existence of a bhAvarUpa tamah /
> mUlAjnAnam. 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
>
> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 3:32 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Antaryami Brahmanam, there is a long
> list
> > of entities who are the 'body' as though of Atman/Brahman which the
> latter
> > impels, does niyamanam.  In this list is one entity 'tamas'.
> >
> > बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद्भाष्यम्तृतीयोऽध्यायःसप्तमं ब्राह्मणम्मन्त्र १३
> >
> > ………यस्तमसि तिष्ठंस्तमसोऽन्तरो यं तमो न वेद यस्य तमः शरीरं यस्तमोऽन्तरो
> > यमयत्येष त आत्मान्तर्याम्यमृतः ॥ १३ ॥ ………
> >
> >
> > The Antaryami, stationed in Tamas, but Tamas does not know this Antaryami
> > for whom Tamas is body, which the Antaryami controls from inside...know
> > this to be your Atman.
> >
> >
> > Just summing up this long list of 'bodies' that the Antaryami (Brahman)
> > 'controls', Shankara says:
> > बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद्भाष्यम्तृतीयोऽध्यायःसप्तमं ब्राह्मणम्मन्त्र १५ - भाष्यम्
> >
> > ………अग्नौ, अन्तरिक्षे, वायौ, दिवि, आदित्ये, दिक्षु, चन्द्रतारके, आकाशे,
> > यस्तमस्यावरणात्मके बाह्ये तमसि, तेजसि तद्विपरीते प्रकाशसामान्ये —
> > इत्येवमधिदैवतम् अन्तर्यामिविषयं दर्शनं देवतासु ।………
> >
> >
> > Shankara takes the entities that he enumerates above as 'adhidaivatam',
> > that is the beings in the cosmos. Like fire, outer space, air, heavens,
> > sun, directions, moon, stars and tamas that envelops the outside and in
> the
> > generalized light that is the opposite of tamas...
> >
> >
> > In yet another mantra in the Br.Up. itself, Shankara while commenting,
> > observes tamas as both the 'outside' (baahya) and the inner, adhyatmika,
> > ignorance....
> >
> > स होवाच गार्ग्यो य एवायं छायामयः पुरुष एतमेवाहं ब्रह्मोपास इति स
> > होवाचाजातशत्रुर्मा मैतस्मिन्संवदिष्ठा मृत्युरिति वा अहमेतमुपास इति स य
> > एतमेवमुपास्ते सर्वं हैवास्मिंल्लोक आयुरेति नैनं पुरा
> कालान्मृत्युरागच्छति ॥
> > १२ ॥
> >  भाष्यम्
> > <
> >
> http://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/display/bhashya/Brha?page=2&id=BR_C02_S01_V12_B01&hlBhashya=%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF#bhashya-BR_C02_S01_V12
> > >
> >
> > छायायां बाह्ये तमसि अध्यात्मं च आवरणात्मकेऽज्ञाने हृदि च एका देवता, तस्या
> > विशेषणम् — मृत्युः ; फलं सर्वं पूर्ववत् , मृत्योरनागमनेन रोगादिपीडाभावो
> > विशेषः ॥
> >
> > In the above, especially the 'outside' tamas, we have the shruti pramana
> > for 'tamas' being a bhaava padaartha like sun, moon, etc.
> >
> > By extension, we may infer that in srishTi, like all objects of the
> cosmos
> > such as the sun, moon....tamas also gets created and remains in the
> cosmos
> > only to manifest whenever the right conditions arise.  So is light.  This
> > is only my theory.
> >
> > warm regards
> > subbu
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
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