[Advaita-l] [advaitin] A talk in Sanskrit on 'Darkness is material' (bhAvarUpa)

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste ji

On Tue, 29 Oct, 2024, 4:52 pm Michael Chandra Cohen via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Sudhanshuji, pranam
> How the text distinguishes between vishaya and vishayi is not as two
> substances but as real and unreal (*satya anṛte mithunīkṛtya*) which are
> opposed to each other epistemologically not ontologically. Who commonly
> takes darkness to be a thing?
>

"Commonly not taking X to be a thing" is no guarantee that it is not a
thing.

The only positive argument made out by all of those who postulate that
darkness is absence of light, is, "who commonly takes darkness to be a
thing?"

Om
Raghav





> Regards
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 7:05 AM Sudhanshu Shekhar <
> sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Michael ji.
> >
> > SSSS points out "tamah prakashavad" ' is simply intended as an example to
> >> be understood in common parlance. It is a diversion of intention to
> >> discover controversial logical nuance in a drstanta. The merits of the
> >> argument is mere scholasticism.
> >>
> >
> > SSSS ji's statement is devoid of merit and logic. The intention of
> > BhAshyakAra is to display mutual-anAtmatA of asmat-pratyaya-gochara and
> > yushmat-pratyaya-gochara and for that he chose prakAsha and tamas, which
> > indeed possess mutual anAtmatA.
> >
> > I had earlier refuted whatever SSSS ji said on this topic in my post at
> > https://tinyurl.com/m45jesps. I had received no response on this.
> >
> > Regards.
> > Sudhanshu Shekhar.
> >
> >
> > --
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> > "advaitin" group.
> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> > email to advaitin+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
> > To view this discussion visit
> >
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/advaitin/CAH9%3D%2BBDrD-VnXEWmw9K8x2udw9CTJ5nvh%3DFvvUaRQuyFgivj3A%40mail.gmail.com
> > <
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/advaitin/CAH9%3D%2BBDrD-VnXEWmw9K8x2udw9CTJ5nvh%3DFvvUaRQuyFgivj3A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer
> >
> > .
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Archives: https://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/
>
> To unsubscribe or change your options:
> https://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/advaita-l
>
> For assistance, contact:
> listmaster at advaita-vedanta.org
>