Re:_Re:__Why_or_how_to_remove_Anatma_to_"experience"_self?

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Namaste Nairji,

 

Thank you for your mail.

 

Nairji, if you go through my mail once again, you will see that I didn't post my

understanding on the matter. I had left it open for everyone to arrive at their

own conclusions.

 

Several interpretations comes to my (ignorant) mind which I will try to express

in words.

>From Sankara Bhashyam:

" By following the commonsense view, he puts this question knowingly: 'There are

in the world varieties of pieces of gold etc. which are known by ordinary people

from the recognized fact of the substantial oneness of gold etc. Similarly does

there exist a single (substance that is the ) cause of the whole universe of

diversity, by knowing which one (substance) all things become known?' "

 

 

a) We know a ring as a ring, a bangle as a bangle etc., because of our knowledge

of the underlying Gold.

What use will be the ring to a 1 month old child or to a lunatic? So the

knowledge of a substance verily depends on the knowledge of its underlying

reality.

Now Shaunaka is keen to know whether such a single underlying reality is there

in all the empirical objects in the universe. And if there exists such a

reality, he wants to gain the knowledge of that reality.

 

 

b) Nuclear physics and all empirical knowledge is in the realm of ignorance. All

of them are just superimpositions on the underlying reality. Suppose we have a

pot in front of us. The name and form of the pot is just an illusion. The

underlying reality is mud. Now what is the real knowledge that we should acquire

about the object in front of us ? Is it about the pot per se or about the

reality of the pot which is mud ? If we define knowledge as 'knowledge of

Reality', then it follows that Knowledge of mud is the only thing to be gained

about that object in front of us. Similarly Brahman being the only reality, it

follows that if Knowledge of Brahman is gained and it will cover everything

since it is the reality and one without a second.

 

Sorry for my "anyatha grahanam" if any, and for creating these low levels of

confusions. :-)

The other option will be just learning to repeat the mahAvAkyAs, some phrases

like "All is Brahman", "Knower, Known and Knowing becomes One", "Knowing which

everything becomes known", "Existence-Knowledge-Bliss" etc., and remain silent

waiting for something to happen. Maybe that silence is indeed the Key !

 

With deep respect for your words.

 

Hari Om