Summary (of "Question", "braHmavid=Krishna?" series of mails)

[Kiran B R]

--- "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at BRAINCELLS.COM> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Kiran B R wrote:
>
> > The Advaitin says "No, you're not forgetting
> anything,
> > it is all thy ***Self***!"
>
> > To which I say, "That's really cool! Since it is
> all
> > my Self, can ***I*** turn these trivial things
> around so
> > that water freezes when I boil it? Can I?"
> >
>
> Ah but who said the 'Self' talked about by Advaitins
> is the same as the
> person 'Kiran Rao'?
>
> In fact 'Kiran Rao' is only a subset of that Self.
> 'Jaldhar Vyas' is
> another subset but it doesn't follow that I am the
> same subset.  And it
> also doesn't follow that a subset has all the
> properties of the whole.
>

Kiran Rao is what he sees himself as. Jaldhar Vyas is
what he sees himself as. Why should anyone see himself
as the subset? Why not as the superset? When a grain
of salt has entered the ocean, where are subsets?
Where are the fences? And what stops the superset (the
ocean) from creating a maayaa (like it is said in the
TaittIrIyOpanishad, "sO&kAmayata | bahu syAm
prajAyEyEti | sa tapOtapyata | sa tapastaptvA | idag.m
sarvamasR.jata | yadidam kim cha |") based on NEW LAWS
and placing Kiran Rao in it, so that Kiran Rao can
happily freeze his water by heating, in the presence
of
Jaldhar Vyas?


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