[Advaita-l] Tamas, physical darkness, is a positive object

[H S Chandramouli]

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> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Ramachandra Sastry via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote
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> << Therefore, how can we say darkness has a objective existence. >>,
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> Based on experience.  When a child closes its eyes with lights on, it does
> not see any light. But it experiences no fear. Let us say the lights go off
> when the child has still closed its eyes, and then opens its eyes. Does the
> child not screech due to fear ? Do we not say the fear is due to its “
> seeing “ darkness? Hence it is said darkness has an objective existence.
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> Regards
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