[Advaita-l] Fwd: [advaitin] what is abhava?

[Bhaskar YR]

praNAms Sri MCC prabhuji
Hare Krishna

Great example but isn't the 'darkness' you experience with your eyes closed just another name for 'absence of light'?


  *   No, according to some, the darkness is some kind of veil which objectively existing like table. Chair in a room it is not mere prakAsha abhAva or absence of light.  Hence avidyA too like darkness has an objective existence ( anyway there is dispute among themselves, one say, when it is said bhAva rUpa it is kinchit abhAva,  another say it is something that is existing another would argue when it is said avidyA is bhAva rUpa is bhAvAbhAva vilakshaNa always invariably 😊 Anyway for us avidyA is tAmasa pratyaya ‘rUpa’ and it is not an existing objective thing hence it is destroyable.  Any amount of prakAsha cannot remove the really existing table chair in the room whereas we cannot search darkness by holding the torch 😊   darkness is the absence of light but certain things can be seen by some animals (like owls, cats etc.) even in pitch dark when human can hardly see.  But for those animals also table and chair are existing and would try to avoid them whereas darkness is just not existing for them.

Rather, it's better to understand "it" as sakshi observing the absence of objects and light - all just names for the 'it' you are calling darkness.


Ø     I am not able to understand this business of only sAkshi vedya in this avidyA vyavahAra …BTW is there anything existing that is NOT sAkshi vedya??

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar