advaitin Shri Atmanandas teachings -- 8. Merging back

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Hi Madathilji,

 

You mention this sentence,

 

"I know but I know not that I know."

 

Simply removing that "not" would result in "I know and I know that I know." But

the kind of knowledge and lack of surprise is not a knowledge "that ..." It's

just knowledge.

 

Given your sentence as a strating point, I'd say it's more like the falling away

of the clause that starts with "but"...

 

Pranams,

 

--Greg

 

On 12/25/03 00:02 am "Madathil Rajendran Nair" (madathilnair) wrote:

Namaste Gregji.

 

Let me put it this way. I know but I know not that I know. Am I

right? The whole thing means the removal of that 'not'. Isn't that

the reason there is no surprise in that realization?

 

PraNAms.

 

Madathil Nair

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advaitin, Gregory Goode <goode@D...> wrote:

 

>

> >4. Isn't contemplation on the Truth (without any thought for what

> >may happen or follow) sufficient during the pre-sleep moments?

>

> Yes, for example, contemplating the truth that Brahman is the

substance of thoughts, between thoughts and beyond thoughts.

Contemplating the truth that between thoughts is not a nihilistic

void but consciousness itself. Contemplating that deep sleep is in

effect a gap between thoughts. With these contemplations and

investigations, deep sleep will come to be seen as consciousness

itself. Deep sleep will no longer be experienced as a surprise, or

as a loss or a veil.

 

 

 

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