The Self | THE PLACE OF PRACTICE IN ADVAITA-VEDANTA

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Going through this post, the following lines from the Upanishads about the Self,

come to my mind, which read something like:

 

You are the hearer but you cannot be heard, you are the observer but you cannot

be observed, you are the comprehender but you cannot be comprehended.... realise

your Self.

 

I like to think of the Self as unknowable as you can only know something which

you can observe.... and to observe something, the observer must be seperate from

the observed. Since the self is the observer, hence it cannot be observed and

hence we cannot attribute properties to it and hence it is unknowable. It just

exists and it is there - and that is as much as we can know about our Self. That

is my opinion.

 

-Konark