Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The unknowable can be known



The unknowable can be known. It is neither unknowable nor remains unknown at any moment. A Gnani can guide the seeker to something which always remains unknown. If a Gnani can guide, it means that he knows about it. This transcendental state is quite easy or may be well-nigh impossible, it depends entirely on seekers receptiveness and intense urge to know the truth of his true existence. It is very difficult  to grasp the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth,  for the people whose has materialistic outlook and stuck with their own idea of truth. It cannot be grasped if it always remains unknown.

"Whatever one experiences becomes known by the formless knower. Seeker carefully has to analyze the underlying substance which, though abstract and apart from known, yet illumines them all the same. Know it to be the truth.

What is not self-luminous can only fall within the orbit of knower and cannot be knower itself. Knower is that by which objects are known; it cannot be what it is if it becomes the object of knowledge.

What is known must always be different from knower itself, or else it could not be made known by it. Intelligence in the abstract cannot admit of parts, which is the characteristic of known. Therefore known comes into existence. Seeker has to carefully observe the knower after eliminating all the known from it.
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Just as a mirror takes on the hues of the images, so also the formless knower assumes the waking/dream objects by virtue of its holding them within itself.
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Formless knower can thus be made manifest by eliminating from it all that can be known. It cannot be known as such and such, for it is the formless substance witness of the known.

This, being the Self of the seeker, is not cognizable.  Seeker has to investigate his true Self in the aforesaid manner. There is no other agent to neither know the Self nor light by which to know it.

"Self the formless knower is not the body, but the knower of the waking, dream and deep sleep states. The body and the world are within the waking or dream.  the three states  are all transient. three states  is known, so how can knower be the known?

Knower surpasses the known, at the time of ability to acquire knowledge of the known.

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