The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch -19.8

01/04/2017

19: True Knowledge : 8.

But we cannot understand this because of the defect of our language and the way in which we usually define things.

Therefore, because of the fact that we wrongly understand the nature of existence, we cannot consider Brahman, the Absolute, as existence in the sense that we interpret it. Brahman is also not non-existence, because it is the supreme existence.

It non-existence to the senses, but it is the precondition of the existence of everything else. It appears to be non-existent because it is the subject of experience. Who can know the subject; who can know the knower?

All things are known by the subject, but who can then know the subject? It remains always an unknowable, indescribable mystery. No one can know the subject, because it refuses to convert itself into an object.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued ....