[Advaita-l] [advaitin] SSSSji with Reason alone on darkness as absence of light

[Michael Chandra Cohen]

Namaste Sudhanshuji,
You are a logician par excellence but logic can at best only interpret
experience. To argue darkness is a 'thing' on the basis of pratiyogi is
absurd. Light alone is your pratiyogi and anuyogi - pure and simple.  We
don't perceive darkness but only absence of light. The measurement of
darkness is not calculated by somehow enumerating darkness but only by
measuring light and its absence.

Tamas however, is indeed held by tradition to be a material guna but such a
dravya/substance cannot be understood as the same as darkness without
violating universal experience. Thus, if and when bhasya or sruti seems to
imply a material nature to darkness, we must interpret that text so that it
does not violate experience for the pramana to determine empirical darkness
is not sruti. If you wish to continue this line of argument, you will need
to show me not through sruti pramana which only claims validity on matters
not knowable empirically but how accepted empirical science points to
darkness as matter.

regards, mcc,

On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 11:25 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 1:37 AM Michael Chandra Cohen <
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>> From The Heart of Sri Samkara, section 21 page 17ff
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>> file:///C:/Users/mc1/OneDrive/Documents/aMy%20eBooks/SSS/aaHeart%20of%20Sri%20Samkara.pdf
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> The link, even when copied to the browser, does not open, at least to me.
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> regards
> subbu
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