The Jar on the Ground

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> When a jar is placed on the ground,

> We have the ground with a jar;

> When the jar is taken away,

> We have the ground without a jar;

>

> " But when neither of these conditions exists,

> The ground exists in its unqualified state.

> It is in this same way

> That the ultimate Reality exists. "

>

> " Jnaneshvar: The Life and Works of the Celebrated Thirteenth

> Century Indian Mystic-Poet, " by S. Abhyayananda.

 

P: Yes, the absence of any notion of absence,

and the absence of any notion of presence,

as different from what is.