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

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

In the above, especially the 'outside' tamas, we have the shruti pramana
for 'tamas' being a bhaava padaartha like sun, moon, etc.

Hari Om V Subrahmanian ji,

Which one exactly is Shruti Pramana for 'tamas' being a bhava padarth like
sun, moon?

Regards,
Sudhanshu.

On Tue 7 May, 2019, 20:22 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
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> छायायां बाह्ये तमसि अध्यात्मं च आवरणात्मकेऽज्ञाने हृदि च एका देवता, तस्या
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>
> 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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