Of course you can’t talk directly about the nonconceptual absolute. This is why indirect metaphors are used.
Rather than appealing to the logic of the mind, metaphors address the intuition of the intellect instead.
Space and pot, rope and snake, canvas and painting: these are just a few examples used by Shankara and his Advaita descendants.
The great space is not contained by the clay pot. The rope is falsely thought to be a snake. Maya, jiva, and namarupa are superimposed on Brahman.
footnotes
metaphors address the right side of the brain.
the right side of the brain connects to the left side of the subtle body
where intellect and intuition resides.
the intellect is an aspect of the reflection of pure consciousness on the subtle body.
they call this aspect, the vijnanamaya, citmaya so to speak.
intuition is that point of reflection. like the witness in regards to satmaya, but in a knowing kind of way. the knower.
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