The Real Self can never become an object
The truth of Namaskara also is only the perfect giving up of the egosense. Right Awareness, self-surrender and Namaskar, all these three are one and the same. ||267||
Thus it is shown that God does not become an object of vision. Neither does He become an object of knowledge.
As God does not become an object of vision, neither does He become an object of knowledge. Since He transcends the mind, the mind will know Him (if at all) only wrongly. ||268||
Since the Real Self, who is consciousness, is the same as God, and there is no consciousness apart from Him, (it follows that) there is no one to know Him, other than He, nor does He become an object of knowledge. ||269||
The Real Self is the eternal subject, and hence He can never become an object, says the Bhagavan Sri Ramana.
(SrIramaNaparavidyopanishad by "WHO")
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Just cruisin' the blogging neighborhood slightly disheartened at the nonsense being expounded and fell upon this gem.
Just when I thought the Ramana party had ended in a downward spiral of babblegook.
Too cool for words. ;-)
"The eye sees the pot.
What sees the pot?
The eye.
Via what does this get to the eye?
Via the optic nerve-centre in the brain.
What sources this optic nerve?
The mind.
What observes the mind?
The individual self or ego.
What sources the ego>
Pure Consciousness" *
Since the Self, which is pure Consciousness, cognizes everything, as stated in the classification above, It is the ultimate Seer. All the rest: ego, mind etc are merely objects. The subject in one line becomes the object in the next; so each one of them except the Self or pure Consciousness is a merely externalized object and cannot be the true Seer. Since the Self cannot be objectified, not being cognized by anything else, the subject—object relation and the apparent objectivity of the Self exist only on the plane of relativity and vanish in the Absolute."
---from Self Enquiry, Chapter III: The World.
* In the original text this information is presented in chart form.
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