Guest guest Posted October 8, 2003 Report Share Posted October 8, 2003 > ANANDA: > But is the mind needed any further, by consciousness itself? Is > consciousness completely independent of the mind and of all world and > personality that mind conceives? > > As I understand advaita, its answer to these questions is a > whole-hearted yes, unreservedly. > > RN: Or IS mind a manifestation of this absolute consciousness in the matrix of > maya? > > > Alan: > On the point made about Ramana knowing Tantra. His close friendship with > Ganapati Muni assured this knowledge. > > RN: Ganapati Muni was a disciple of Ramana no? I believe that Ganapati Muni > gave him the name ŒRamana Maharshi¹. Tantra is of course much more than > Œknowledge¹. It is a mystic tradition; a tradition of experience. > > > And to Greg, you quoted some words from Sri Atmananda > > "It is experience that must prove the existence of anything. An > object as such is never experienced. It is the knowledge of it that > may be said to have been experienced. Even this is not strictly > correct. If an object is not experienced, it must be held to be > non-existent. How can there be knowledge of a non-existent thing? > Therefore it is not even the knowledge of an object that is > experienced but knowledge itself. Thus experience proves that the > entire objective world is knowledge and knowledge alone. That is > consciousness..." > > RN: This knowledge is however not still but vibrant it seems to me. It is > active and alive instead of passive and inert. It is Self-referral. > Consciousness is Vimarsa and Prakasha. > > Ralph Nataraj. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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