Guest guest Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Brahm vit Brahm has both the meanings 1) if you know Brahm, you become Brahm 2) Only Brahm knows Brahm These two meanings do not contradict each other as becoming Brahm and knowing Brahm is simultaneous and not separated. We go to search for truth and become Truth....and finally we know we were always THAT. baba --- Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami Q) "Brahma Vit Brahma" means that He who knows Brahman becomes Brahman. But you say that the meaning of this is that Brahman alone knows Brahman. How is it? A) People have given your interpretation, which I know very well. But I give this interpretation because Gita says `Mamtu Veda Nakaschana' which means that no body knows Brahman. Your meaning will contradict Gita. If you say that if one knows Brahman, He becomes Brahman, then there are two stages. In the first stage a person knows Brahman. In the second stage the person becomes Brahman. But Gita contradicts the first stage because no person can exist as a person while knowing the Brahman. Moreover Veda says that Brahman is beyond words, mind, intelligence and logic. Veda also says that if one knows that he cannot know Brahman, he knows at least some thing about Brahman (Yasyamatam Tasya matam). Therefore my interpretation is in line with Gita and also with the other Vedic Mantras. posted by: His servant at the lotus feet of shri datta swami www.universal-spirituality.org Tatwamasi <tatwamasi wrote: Meditation is the process of stilling /slowing the mind which is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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