Ashtavakra Gita

Chandran, Nanda (NBC) Nanda.Chandran at NBC.COM
Mon May 11 09:46:44 CDT 1998


Srinivas writes :

>The statements like "There is no being or non-being", ..etc
>refer to the intellectual concepts of the mind.

>It is a well known fact that "being" cannot be negated.

Aren't you contradicting yourself here?

>They are meant to
>silence the mind and free it from all dualistic conceptions so
        >that the underlying non-dual nature is intuitively felt.

        Are you saying that the philosopher who stated, "Neither Being,
nor Non-Being, neither nor both", was also expounding only the
underlying non-dual nature?

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