Digest Number 799

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>While Brahman cannot be an object of the mind, Brahmajnana is.

>That is, when one is blessed with realization, one finds that

>a special kind of knowledge exists within the mind. This

>knowledge is the result of the direct awareness of pure awareness,

>always present in the mind.

 

Mind is aware of the pure awareness.

 

So here we've three entities 1. knower (mind), 2. knowledge (awareness), 3.

pure awareness (known).

 

But how would you distinguish the second from the third. Both are

awareness only and hence the same in nature. So how can awareness

be aware of pure awareness - are they one or two? Plus we have the mind. Is

the mind different from the awareness with which it is aware of the pure

awareness? If so how is it aware of the awareness? For it to cognize the

awareness (knowledge)it has to be aware too. So now we've three entities

which are aware. What bridges these three? Another awareness? What bridges

this awareness with the other awarenesses? Another awareness? So on, ad

infinitum.

 

Mind - awareness - pure awareness - are all but different names for

the same thing. As Gaudapaada says in his kaarikaa, consciousness in

empirical terms is only a vibration of the pure consciousness. It is

neither identical nor different from the pure consciousness.

 

Just as a moving firebrand appears as straight or curved, so does

consciousness in action appear as the subject and object. And just as

an unmoving firebrand produces no illusion, so does firm knowledge

produce no subject-object duality. The appearances of the firebrand

are not produced by anything else and when the firebrand doesn’t move,

the appearances don’t rest in anything else. Nor do the appearances

enter into the firebrand or do they go out of it. They are mere

appearances because they are essentially indescribable or unthinkable,

neither real nor unreal, neither existent nor non-existent.

 

When the mind is stilled - when it vibrates no more - consciousness

loses its objectivity - then pure consciousness.

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