[Advaita-l] Perception through night vision glasses

[H S Chandramouli]

Namaste.

Reason why I have asked if it makes any difference if darkness is
considered to be abhAvarUpa is that it would be easier and could make the
response more sensible by addressing from that view point.

Regards

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 5:04 PM H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Sudhanshu Ji,
>
> Darkness is bhAvarUpa. Yes. It is a veil. It is destroyed by
> Light/PrakAsha. This destruction of the veiling lasts as long as
> Light/PrakAsha exists. Once this is absent, the veiling by darkness
> obtains. The intensity of the veiling also depends upon the relative
> strengths of the darkness and light. This is the nature of the veiling by
> darkness.
>
> Visual perception is dependent upon the strength/extent of veiling by
> darkness other things remaining constant. And this is extended to the whole
> ambience from the perceiver to the object of perception. Not necessarily
> limited to that at the location of the object.When this is changed, for
> example by way of night glasses, visual perception also changes because the
> level of veiling is changed. When an opaque obstacle is placed between the
> perceiver and the object, vision of the object is completely lost
> irrespective of the level of light at the location of the object.
>
> If it is abhAvarUpa, does it change this position?
> Regards
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 2:46 PM Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> It's similar to watching a TV screen that has different brightness. What
>> you're seeing really is the TV projection as viShaya.
>>
>> If the Q is as to how the device captures the objects in the front while
>> there is darkness, is capturing by infrared light, which is still light
>> that takes away tamas. tasmAt naiSha doShaH.
>>
>> On Sun 19 Jul, 2020, 1:36 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l, <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Hari Om,
>> >
>> > How do we explain perception during night through night-vision-glasses
>> as
>> > per Vedantic theory of perception in view of darkness being bhAvarupa.
>> >
>> > Venkataraghavan ji, Chandramouli ji, V Subramanian ji, Raghav ji and
>> > others. I will really appreciate your views on this.
>> >
>> > Reference can be made to this:
>> > https://www.explainthatstuff.com/hownightvisionworks.html
>> >
>> > Regards.
>> > Sudhanshu Shekhar.
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