that which cannot be thought

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Contemplation is to have broken through the sound barrier:

no longer to identify God with the product of one's thought

or one's emotions. Pure and naked faith, said St John of

the Cross, trying to make it clear to people that God is not

at all what they think he is; not what people adore, as the

Kena Upanishad said:

 

"That which cannot be expressed by words,

but that by which the word is expressed -

this is Brahman, understand well,

and not what is worshipped here as such.

That which cannot be thought by the mind,

but that by which, they say, the mind is thought -

this is Brahman, understand well, and not what is

worshipped here as such."

(Kena Upanishad I,4f)

 

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Abhishiktananda: Ascent to the Depth of the Heart

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