Guest guest Posted May 22, 2000 Report Share Posted May 22, 2000 The song of the ever-free Avadhuta Gita Chapter verse 23 Nature of the Real Self: Brahman is effulgent, absolutely pure, infinite and beyond the intellect. It is unwise to think of the infinite Brahman as unpolluted or polluted, undivided or divided. I am existence-knowledge-bliss boundless as space. Commentary: We see this constant struggle to try pin down Brahman. We see here the use a method called double bind. Though we are forced to use superlatives like infinite and yet the verse contradicts itself by saying "watch out as all definitions lead to dualism. Unpolluted implies that which is not polluted hence it indirectly ties up Brahman as negation of pollution - all such definitions however grand are limitations on Brahman which does not care for such classifications and non-classifications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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