Vedanta - Absolutely Maybe

PURUSHOTTAM MAHAJAN





Nothing exists apart from the absolute. Yet, the absolute, being transcendent, does not suffer from the limitations of the sense organs, of attributes, of time. It is imperceivable, eternally pure, unqualified and is bliss. By knowing the absolute, everything is known, and fear and delusion no longer remain. Our world is deeply rooted in what we may call the dialectic, or duality . It manifests its nature in terms of rise and fall, birth and death, cause and effect, one and many , here and there, I and you.There is nothing in this world that can be said to be permanent. Being subject to its inherent nature, the world is tran sient and infirm. Bles sed are they with the gift of knowledge who realise the unity of being in the middle of the dualistic world. The knower of the absolute is one who realises and experiences the same reality in everything.
Only a mind that has gained a certain amount of stability can comprehend that the objects of experience, although the cause of much ill, are not bereft or devoid of divine presence. An object becomes the source of ill at that moment when the intellect not only objectifies it, but also objectifies the divine presence due to which the object exists.
Each object, in fact, does not exist in itself. As such, the objects of perception are nonreal. It follows, then, that the intellect that objectifies the non-real objects, too, is nonreal or apparent.