[Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Veda itself says the Veda is not absolutely real

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2025, Vikram Jagannathan via Advaita-l wrote:

> OMkaram is a sound symbol representing the Truth, just as the symbol 
> “pi” represents the irrational series 3.1412... The entity represented 
> by OMkaram is absolutely real, whereas as a representation or a pointer, 
> the akshara “OMkaram” is “not absolutely real”. It is only as real as 
> the world.

I like the analogy with pi.  This weekend I had to do some maintainence on 
my house and to drill holes I need to know the area of a circle for whih I 
used the value 3.14.  This is not pi but a "good enough" approximation for 
practical use.  In the same way we have various saguNa "approximate" forms 
of brahman including the sonic form OM but it is not the entire Brahman 
which is beyond names and forms.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>