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

[Ravi Kiran]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:25 PM, H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

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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.
>

Interestingly, only light (tejas) is listed under dravya (substance), but
not darkness (tamas), in tarka sangraha.


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