Guest guest Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Namaste Dennis, Shri Madathil, In search of a simpler answer towards your questions about 'higher reason', a bit of verse is appended as a postscript. I would add that the process of 'higher reason' is one hundred percent empirical. Each question is tried out to see what result it leads to. And then, further questions rise empirically. They rise from actual experience of the result, not just from imagining or theorizing in advance what it might be. Thus, the process must go on relentlessly, until the actual experience of a truth where questions do not further rise -- where all possibility of questioning is utterly dissolved. All this requires that each questioning attack is turned back upon one's own mistakes of assumption and belief. Otherwise, the reasoning is merely theoretical. Ananda ------------------------ Reasoning and truth When an enquiry begins to ask for plain, impartial truth, the asking is at first from mind. But, for such asking to succeed, the mind that asks must question what it thinks it knows -- discerning truth from falsity in its assumed beliefs. In search of truth, the asking must keep opening what is believed to unrelenting scrutiny, until the living truth itself -- the very knowledge that is sought -- takes charge of the enquiry. That taking charge by living truth, of asking mind, is spoken of as 'vidya vritti' or, in other words, as 'higher reasoning'. Then, in that higher reasoning, the knowledge sought becomes expressed in living arguments and questioning towards a truth beyond the mind -- a truth which makes no compromise between mind's thoughts that make-believe and what knowing truly finds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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