[Advaita-l] [advaitin] A kilogram of darkness please

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Michael ji.

--तथैव भावात्मकताभावानाम्. meaning please
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the abhAva-s have bhAvAtmakatA. [I am not translating as these words are
not casual words which can be easily translated in English. Let us retain
their sanskrit origin]

I request the replies to be precise and to the point. Question is precise.
Answers should be precise.

Question is simple - even if darkness is accepted as prakAsha-abhAva, as
per the anumAna adduced by BhAshyakAra in BUB 1.2.1, it is still bhAvarUpa.
So, darkness, even if accepted as prakAsha-abhAva, is triguNAtmaka.

*In fact the bhAshyakAra's anumAna can be easily remodelled as under: -*





*घटान्योन्याभावः सन्पटः त्रिगुणात्मकः। (pot-anyonya-abhAva is triguNAtmaka,
being cloth)घटस्य प्राक्प्रध्वंसात्यन्ताभावानामपि त्रिगुणात्मकत्वम् , घटेन
व्यपदिश्यमानत्वात् , घटस्येतरेतराभाववत् ; (pot-atyanta-abhAva,
pot-prAk-abhAva, pot-pradhvamsa-abhAva are triguNAtmaka, on account of
having transactability through pot, like pot-anyonya-abhAva)तथैव
त्रिगुणात्मकताभावानाम् । (**Therefore abhAvAs have triguNAtmakatA.)*

Please answer in a precise manner. I cannot find the answer in what Sri
Kumar ji has written.

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.