Forty Verses, V. 11

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Is it not ignorance to know all but the

all-knowing Self?

When the latter, the substratum of both

knowledge and ignorance, is known,

knowledge and ignorance themselves

both disappear.

 

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S.S. Cohen

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Can knowledge of everything, without

Self-knowledge, be true knowledge?

Awareness of the Self, which is the support

of knower and known destroys the pair,

knowledge and ignorance.

 

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A.R. Natarajan

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So long as one considers the 'I' as separate and

independent, one can only be in the state of

ignorance. Seer, seen and act of seeing would

also be thought of as distinct from one another.

"For one to whom the subject is not different from

the Self, the object and cognition also do not

appear different from the Self. For one to whom

the subject is different from the Self, the object

and the cognition also appear different from

the Self. " (Ramana Gita, XII, 4f)

 

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Comment A.R. Natarajan

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