[Advaita-l] Tamil for 'Who this 'I' and for the 'I-I'

[D.V.N. Sarma]

who this I? =naan yaar
I = naan

Hope it helps.

regards,
Sarma.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Michael Shepherd
<michael at shepherd87.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> I pass on a question from a philosophy student : what (transliterated) in
> Tamil is Ramanaji's celebrated 'Who this 'I'?;
>
> and what sound do Tamil devotees seek the source of, as we in English do
> with 'I' ?
>
> As you will appreciate this is a question about shabda and languages --
> which may or not be relevant..
>
> The student suggests that in seeking the source of this 'I-sound', the mind
> will later hear the 'unspoken' sound of 'aham'... but this is theory as
> yet..
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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