Matter, Time and Existence

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Namaste Advaitins,

 

Lets say that you know something. We are being told that its existence

was indeterminate before ones knowledge of its existence. To summarise

this position:

A. x is known, it exists in a determinate fashion i.e. it is known

B. prior to that it is not known whether it exists or not. i.e. it is

unknown/indeterminated

 

This makes the existence of x time sensitive and seems to make it neither

existent nor non-existent before it was noticed. How does this idea fit

into the rejection of the notion of existence coming out of indeterminate

existence? (to adapt the question put in Ch.Up.VI.ii.1) Can we give a

sense to the idea of indeterminate existence really? What Im trying to

get at here is the idea that our encounter with existing things is in the

now, in the present moment. This is where existence is, where things are,

where beings be. Existents exist, that fullness never leaves them. The

past is granted existence by virtue of present existence. It cannot be

granted indeterminate existence. Indeterminate existence is a form of

words which can have no real meaning. It is a purely mental conceptual

formulation and cannot be realised in any immediate fashion. Therefore it

is a faulty axiom and not a suitable launching pad for inquiry.

 

Ch.V.ii.3: Reply: No, Since it is Existence itself that is perceived

otherwise through the duality of different forms, therefore, there is no

non-existence of anything anywhere.

 

Best Wishes,

Michael.