![]() ![]() The ego or its separation is an illusion. It has nothing to do with the individual. Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge.Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism. quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1964. The external world and consciousness are one and the same thing.' 'If finally we look back at that idea of Mach, we shall realize that it comes as near to the orthodox dogma of the Upanishads as it could possibly do without stating it expressis verbis.in 'The Mystic Vision' as translated in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (1984) edited by Ken Wilber, Shambala Publications, Boston.'You may suddenly come to see, in a flash, the profound rightness of the basic conviction of Vedanta: … knowledge, feeling and choice are essentially eternal and unchangeable and numerically one in all men, nay in all sentient beings.' Vedantic philosophy, in which this is a fundamental dogma, has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply the object. But it is quite easy to express the solution in words, thus: the plurality that we perceive is only an appearance it is not real.in Moore, Walter J., Schrödinger: Life and Thought Cambridge University Press (1992).Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear tat tvam asi, this is you. ![]() This life of yours which you are living is not merely apiece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.We are never in a position to say what really is or what really happens, but we can only say what will be observed in any concrete individual case. Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory. ![]()
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