Guest guest Posted May 22, 2000 Report Share Posted May 22, 2000 The song of the ever-free Avadhuta Gita Chapter verse 23 Nature of the Real Self: Brahman is effulgent, absolutely pure, infinite and beyond the intellect. It is unwise to think of the infinite Brahman as unpolluted or polluted, undivided or divided. I am existence-knowledge-bliss boundless as space. Commentary: We see this constant struggle to try pin down Brahman. We see here the use a method called double bind. Though we are forced to use superlatives like infinite and yet the verse contradicts itself by saying " watch out as all definitions lead to dualism. Unpolluted implies that which is not polluted hence it indirectly ties up Brahman as negation of pollution - all such definitions however grand are limitations on Brahman which does not care for such classifications and non-classifications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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