Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Shankara on Vedic revelation

Can any means of knowledge reveal the Self, since to do so is to make the Self an object for a knowing subject. You cannot know anything as an object until you are separate from it and it is standing over against you as an object ready to be known.

Vedic revelation and critical reflection, therefore, as applied to the Self, are primarily negative in character. They do not yield determinate knowledge of the Self as if it were an object:

their function, rather, is to negate that which impedes the self-manifestation of the Self in its true form as infinite consciousness.











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